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 lumi
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
"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