Salt Pier (Pitt Poetry Series)

"[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