{"title":"Kurt Heinzelman","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"whatever-you-may-say-book-kurt-heinzelman-9781936671441","title":"Whatever You May Say","description":"\u003cp\u003eRich 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.\u003cbr\u003e --Lawrence Raab, National Book Award Finalist for \u003cem\u003eMistaking Each Other for Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI 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 topics--from the ghazal to the closet drama to the sonnets to the riffs on the haiku to the fresh and convincing translations to the range of literary allusions to the demotic to that crazy little dachshund that keeps sleeping on the couch. There's even a terrific children's book (The HeinzelmAnnchen) embedded in these pages. How aptly named this collection is: Whatever You May Say. Four words which Heinzelman approaches with half a century of wit and savvy philosophical inquiry behind him, and all presented lightly with such sprezzatura.\u003cbr\u003e --Paul Mariani, poet and author of Wallace Stevens: \u003cem\u003eThe Whole Harmonium\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was thoroughly prepared to enjoy this new book and I was not disappointed. Heinzelman's poems consistently possess the qualities of music and intelligence without which poetry cannot be good.\u003cbr\u003e --Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics, author of \u003cem\u003eTo Explain the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinzelman's newest collection is filled with lines drawn taut as water plaiting down (Elevations: A Photoessay). Strikingly vivid and often hilarious and wise, the poems meditate on a wide range of subjects, from the history of sunflowers, barking dogs, the Texas landscape(s), postures and behaviors of dachshunds, the vagaries of memory, to wars of all sorts and in various parts of the world. If only for the luscious sounds of the chittering flocks of swallows  that] prey \/ At evening on the antiquities of the day (Lines Written After Revisiting Tintern Abbey); for the witty list in Birds of Oz; for the dynamite line eggy slidings of slapstick blue that ends Skyscrapers by the Sea; and for the surprising ending of North of Austin where turkey buzzards rotate \/ slowly overhead like couples \/ all aglitter underneath their \/ honkytonk's mirrored ball, and for much more, \u003cem\u003eWhatever You May Say\u003c\/em\u003e is not a book to miss \u003cbr\u003e --Wendy Barker, author of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize for \u003cem\u003eOne Blackbird at a Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50131088670993,"sku":"CIN1936671441VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52485645304081,"sku":"NLS9781936671441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53560840028433,"sku":"NIN9781936671441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1936671441.jpg?v=1750771006"},{"product_id":"make-it-new-book-kurt-heinzelman-9780292702844","title":"Make it New","description":"What was Modernism, and why does it still matter? The term itself first gained currency in the 1930s, describing a kind of art that already may have peaked, some would say as early as 1922. Whatever its ups and downs in its own time, as the novelist Julian Barnes claims in one of the twenty essays commissioned for the present volume, Modernism never vanished. It remains our immovable feast. Modernism was international in scope: it left its mark on all genres, from literature and painting to opera, dance, and architecture; it pushed the boundaries of what was artistically possible and aesthetically important; and, finally, for all its destructive urges which it shared with the century itself, it was also celebrative. This book is a response to the exhibition of the same name that opened at the Harry Ransom Center in October 2003. It includes original essays by such noted writers and artists as Russell Banks, Anita Desai, David Douglas Duncan, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Penelope Lively, which offer fresh perspectives on important Modernist figures, including William Gaddis, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, E. M.Forster, Paul Robeson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. In addition, essays by leading scholars in literature and art history focus on specific artefacts included in the exhibit. As the Center's Director, Thomas F. Staley, puts it in the Foreword, 'Ours is an attempt not of definition but of discovery and rediscovery'. 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