Description: Burt Kimmelman's readership is one that is made of poets and others who read poetry carefully. They're drawn to his poems' precision, understatement, and vivid realizations of places (e.g., in a city) and in nature.
Review Quotes: "Kimmelman creates himself through effacement, humility, the joy and terror of being alive."--Hasanthika Sirisena, American Book Review
"Kimmelman's poems attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday."--Eric Hoffman, Rain Taxi "That every shadow of wonder can stand forth in the most familiar words is the gift this poet offers his readers time and again." --Susan Howe, American poet "He observes the natural world, the plaintive cry noted, but never breaking the reverie."--Michael Heller, American poet "...a strict and powerful accounting, leaving me--for one--filled with admiration and hooked on every word." --Jerome Rothenberg, American poet and translator "A rare evocation . . . the wonder of this world in itself." --Robert Creeley, American poet "He finds what is luminously transcendent."--Harvey Shapiro, American poet and editor "His poems so gracefully demonstrate classic notions of what the practice of poetry must be."--Madeline Tiger, Reviewer, Jacket2