Somehow

Poetry. Kimmelman has previously published three collections of poetry, including a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso. He teaches English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and is the author of two book-length literary-critical studies. 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 routines of everyday life – Harvey Shapiro.