Poetry. "Burt Kimmelman is a poet who trusts what is: the continuous autonomy of two people in a close marriage, the unalterable passage of time, the lies the mirror tells us, the comfort of 'simply living / among the objects of the day.' Yet, like the inimitable domestic scenes painted by Pierre Bonnard, Kimmelman's quiet poems contain the luminescence of perception, its lure, its beauty, its Zen of breath, tracing beauty in the pulse of the extant."—Star Black

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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