Poetry. "Make no mistake about it: Burt Kimmelman appears here—& not for the first time—as a successor to the lineage of William Carlos Williams & George Oppen (to name but two), no less so for being a master of that lineage worn proudly. The sense of number in his writing—particle by particle & breath by breath—& the attention that he gives to other particulars—the littlest words & the small moments through which we live—are of a piece. In this there is nothing minor or modest, although it might appear to be just that, but a strict & powerful accounting, leaving me—for one—filled with admiration & hooked on every word"—Jerome Rothenberg.

Author Hometown: NEWARK, NJ USA



About the author: 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:
"Taking Dinner to My Mother" in Writer's Almanac
William Allegrezza at Galatea Resurrects
Jim Tolan @ Galatea Resurrects