"[T]he poems in this debut...open up to show startling verbal skills, intellectual depths, and sensory complications....Marital love in the present (Kiesselbach has a particular talent for love poems), what looks like abuse in the past, the cycle of green growing things, the cold of the north, and the warmth of the animal world all inform these investigations of confession and its discontents, of commitments given and withheld, sometimes through stark life story but more often, in a wonderful involution, through symbols contemplated at short remove."
--Publishers Weekly
Dore Kiesselbach studied poetry at Oberlin College and the University of Iowa then law at New York University. His first collection, Salt Pier (Pittsburgh, 2012), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Other honors include a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Britain's Bridport Prize, and the Poetry Society of America's Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Agni, Antioch Review, Plume, Poetry and Field. He lives in Minneapolis.