Poetry. "In FIRST LIFE, Burt Kimmelman captures the tactile language of childhood and the sensate world of the pre-verbal and newly verbal. His poems are intricate and wise nursery rhymes exploring the intimacies of family life—what takes place just off camera in home videos, right outside the frames of snapshots."—Denise Duhamel

"Burt Kimmelman is finely tuned to the mute moments when there is nothing more to tell our children, so there is only poem."—James L. Weil

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.

Reviews and Other Links
author site