Poetry. MUSAICS is a book of poems about art and the experience of viewing art in museums. "In Burt Kimmelman's poems, form calls deeply to form as though the works of art, the paintings and sculptures of the titles, lifted one to the very brim of the language where one could speak, not museum notes, but of a life caught whole."—Michael Heller

"Kimmelman is a looker and a seer, a classicist and a thoroughly contemporary man. He experiences the world through the eyes and on the tongue and at the ear. These poems are a museum of his mind on fire with perceptions, perspectives, and insights."—Michael Stephens

Author City: NEWARK, NJ USA

Burt Kimmelman's books of poetry include THE WAY WE LIVE (Dos Madres Press, 2011), AS IF FREE (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007), SOMEHOW (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), THE POND AT CAPE MAY POINT (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), and FIRST LIFE (Jensen/Daniels, 2000). He is also a well-known critic, the author of The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998) and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages as well as the co-editor of The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (Facts on File, 2007) and the editor of The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Facts on File, 2005). He is a professor of English and the chair of the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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