Burt Kimmelman
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Burt Kimmelman is a Jewish-American poet and scholar most noted for his astute criticism of modern and postmodern American poetry and the development of the poetics of authorship in medieval Europe. He is a celebrated poet within the tradition of William Carlos Williams.
He received his PhD in English Literature from the City University of New York; a certificate in interdisciplinary medieval studies from the City University of New York; an MA in English Literature from Hunter College, City University of New York; and a BA in English Literature from the State University of New York, College at Cortland.
He is currently a professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology located in Newark, New Jersey. At NJIT, he is a Professor of English and holds the position of Acting Chair in the Department of Humanities.
His Professional Page Through NJIT (Includes a Photo)
[edit] Poetry Collections
- There Are Words (poems), Loveland, OH: Dos Madres Press (2007)
- Somehow (poems), East Rockaway, New York: Marsh Hawk Press (2005)
- The Pond at Cape May Point (a collaboration of poems and paintings by Fred Caruso), New York City: Marsh Hawk Press (2002)
- First Life (poems), Jersey City, NJ: Jensen/Daniels, Publishers (2000)
- Musaics (poems), New York: Spuyten Duyvil (1992)
[edit] Critical Studies
- The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, Ed., Intr., and Append., New York: Facts on File, Inc. (2005)
- The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / London: Associated University Presses (1998)
- The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages : The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, New York / Washington, D.C. / Baltimore / Bern / Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna / Paris: Peter Lang Publishing (1996)
