Burt Kimmelman's books of poetry include There Are Words (2007), Somehow (2005), The Pond at Cape May Point (2002), First Life (2000), and Musaics (1992). He is also a well known critic, the author of The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (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 (2007) and the editor of The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (2005). He is a professor of English and the chair of the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Other poems by Burt Kimmelman in Verse Daily:

February 16, 2008:   "Before Anything Happened the House Had No Skeleton" "the termites had deboned the thing..."

Books by Burt Kimmelman:

Other poems on the web by Burt Kimmelman:
"Blackeyed Susan"
"Edvard Munch's Despair, 1892"
"Back in Brooklyn"
Fifteen poems

Burt Kimmelman According to Wikipedia.

About As If Free:

"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 of number in his writing — particle by particle & breath by breath — & the attention that he gives to other particulars — the littlest words & the small moments through which we live — are of a piece. In this there is nothing minor or modest, although it might appear to be just that, but a strict & powerful accounting, leaving me — for one — filled with admiration & hooked on every word."
—Jerome Rothenberg