"In Intimacies & Other Devices Kurt Heinzelman has created a marvelous hommage to the erotic in all its forms and manifestations, a world in which, as he so originally puts it, taste's 'one true sommelier' is beauty and 'constellations of geese' can actually be seen as 'fellating the starstruck skies.' This is a poet not ashamed of lust, and its accompanying hunger for beauty, at any age, and who knows how to make of those hungers a world both subtle and celebrative at once. A wonderful book, one that will bring pleasure, in the deepest sense, to all who encounter it." -Michael Blumenthal,...
"In Intimacies & Other Devices Kurt Heinzelman has created a marvelous hommage to the erotic in all its forms and manifestations, a world in which, as...
"Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman's poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once. Again and again their verbal playfulness opens up to genuine feeling. These poems are sometimes boisterous and sometimes sad, sometimes learned and sometimes comic, but always a pleasure." --Lawrence Raab, National Book Award Finalist for Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
"I love these poems for their delightfully fresh expression, as if a dozen ventriloquists in a painting by, say, RenE Magritte were addressing you. So many surprises here with poetic forms and...
"Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman's poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once. Again and again their verbal playful...
