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POLLEN, SALT, & CHIMES
New Poems & Others, by Kurt Heinzelman
“Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman’s poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once … always a pleasure.”
—Lawrence Raab, author of April at the Ruins
“Heinzelman’s poems consistently possess the qualities of music and intelligence.”
—Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics, author of To Explain the World
“Heinzelman creates a poetry of place with an unerring eye and ear for the ways that landscape can be mapped in the twists and turns of language.”
—Michael Davidson, author of Ghostlier Demarcations
“These poems travel; each ‘road spills / its cargo of hooks.’ What a thrill to discover this etymology of place, of self.”
—Susan B. A. Somers-Willett, author of The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
“Kurt Heinzelman writes a restless, free-ranging poetry, rarely repeating a form or approach … ballads, Pindaric odes, sonnets, ekphrastic poems, short lyrics, one-sentence poems, and long, elastic sequences, all handled with remarkable skill and ease.”
—Brian Barker, author of The Black Ocean and Vanishing Acts
A native of Wisconsin, Kurt Heinzelman attended school in New England, held a Fulbright at Edinburgh University (Scotland) and a Rockefeller Grant to Bellagio (Italy); he taught for many years at the University of Texas—Austin. Elected to the Texas Institute of Letters, he was a Visiting Professor at Université de Paris III and appointed an Honorary Professor at Swansea University (Wales) for his service with the International Dylan Thomas Prize. An editor, historian, and translator, this is his sixth collection of poetry. He lives with his wife, the scholar Susan Sage Heinzelman, in San Clemente, California.
Intimacies & Other Devices (2013)
“A marvelous hommage to the erotic in all its forms and manifestations”—MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
“Replete with the great range of devices poets and lovers employ. Ballads whose diction ranges from wont and my lady to giddyup and nipple rings, free-ranging adaptations of Horace, Neruda, and Eluard … wildly imaginative and very, very sexy.”—ELLEN DORÉ WATSON
“Expansive variety of voices, inventions and moods … probing reflection to sheer rapture”—NICHOLAS JOSE
6"x9" paperback, 118 pages, ISBN: 978-1-936671-19-9, $16.00
Cover Art by Susan Sage Heinzelman
Whatever You May Say (2017)
From ghazal to closet drama, sonnets, haiku, translations, allusions (Paul Mariani), the poems meditate on sunflowers, barking dogs, Texas landscapes, dachshunds, memory, and wars (Wendy Barker). Heinzelman's poems possess the qualities of music and intelligence (Steven Weinberg); rich and inventive, their playfulness opens up to genuine feeling (Lawrence Raab).
6"x9" paperback, 144 pages, ISBN: 978-1-936671-44-1, $16.00