Poetry. The pared-down and essentialized poems in ABANDONED ANGEL show Kimmelman's further explorations of the procedural dynamic in syllabic forms."By way of a precise and pared-down language these poems artfully render a physical world while simul...

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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 ...

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Poetry. Art. With drawings by Basil King. "The specificity of Burt Kimmelman's poems has, for more than thirty years, been a singularly locating force. It situates us in space, in relation to the luminosity of objects, art, and one another. That eve...

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Poetry. "Burt Kimmelman is a poet who obviously admires the clarity of classical Chinese poetry and strives for it in his tight syllabics and in his shifting images of light and dark. In doing so, he finds what is luminously transcendent in the rout...

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A new collection of poems by Burt Kimmelman, including the long series "Plague Calendar" about the COVID-19 pandemic.Burt Kimmelman’s new poems continue his exploration of syllabic forms. The book’s first section contains individual poems written in...

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Burt Kimmelman’s essays range across cultures and their artifacts, weighing the reach of the arts, especially in the avant-garde as the modern becomes postmodern. Over a long century our poetry, art, architecture and film have determined a history t...

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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 ...

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Poetry. "Suzuki writes: 'The true artist, like a Zen master, is one who knows how to appreciate the myo of things...[to make] a glimpse of things eternal in the world of constant changes.' In WINGS APART, Burt Kimmelman does just that. He observes t...

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