Last Supper of the Senses

"The poetry of sensation arises at the intersection of world, nerve ending, and language. Dean Kostos is a carnivalesque wizard on all three fronts, a type that Huizinga called 'homo ludens,' man at play. The delight he takes in sonic invention, puns, and traditional verseforms draws us into the game with him--a game whose ingenuity shouldn't blind us to the fact that he is also a poet of uncommon pathos"--Alfred Corn.