Burt Kimmelman

Background

Burt Kimmelman was born on May 5, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is a son of David Brown Kimmelman, a physician, and Sylvia Kimmelman, a teacher.

Education

In 1983 Burt Kimmelman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York College at Cortland. In 1987 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from the Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1991 Kimmelman gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Career

In 1988 Burt Kimmelman was appointed a professor of humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He teaches literary and cultural studies in the Humanities department. He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (1998) and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996).

In addition, he has edited or co-edited seven volumes of literary criticism, including The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (2005), The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (2007), and the Encyclopedia of American Poetry (2013, 2016). He has, as well, published several essay-length memoirs and more than a hundred articles, a few of them on art or architecture, the rest on medieval, modern, or contemporary poetry.

Achievements

• Burt Kimmelman is best known for his collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and has been featured on National Public Radio.

Works

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  • The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters

    (This first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our...)

    1998
  • There Are Words

    (The sharply realized imagery and music of There Are Words...)

    2007
  • Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in Late Medieval Literature

    (In a daring rewrite of literary history, contributors to ...)

    2017
  • The Facts On File Companion To 20th Century American Poetry

    (This book includes more than six hundred clearly written ...)

    2005
  • The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona

    (Literary individualism first manifests itself in the twel...)

    1996
  • The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory

    (The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory ...)

    2015
  • The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry

    (Intended for high school and college students, this encyc...)

    2007
  • First Life

    ("In First Life, Burt Kimmelman captures the tactile langu...)

    2000
  • William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments

    (Essays on the major American poet William Bronk by the fo...)

    2013
  • Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 - 2013

    (The specificity of Burt Kimmelman's poems has, for more t...)

    2013
  • The Pond at Cape May Point

    (This is a collection of poems about nature paired with wa...)

    2002
  • Musaics

    (This is a book of poems about art and the experience of v...)

    1992
  • As If Free

    (This is a collection of poetry.)

    2009
  • The Way We Live

    (This is a collection of poetry.)

    2011
  • Wings Apart

    (This is a collection of poetry.)

    2019
  • Somehow

    (This is a collection of poems.)

    2005
  • Abandoned Angel: New Poems

    (Poetry. The pared-down and essentialized poems in Abandon...)

    2016

Membership

Burt Kimmelman is a member of the Modern Language Association of America, the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, the Society for Textual Scholarship.

Connections

On June 6, 1970 Burt Kimmelman married Lavonne Mack. In 1973 they divorced. On December 28, 1989 he married Diane Maureen Ellis Simmons, a professor and novelist. They have a daughter, Jane Zvi.

Father:

David Brown Kimmelman

Mother:

Sylvia Kimmelman

Spouse:

Diane Maureen Ellis Simmons

ex-spouse:

Lavonne Mack

Daughter:

Jane Zvi

References

• Contemporary Authors
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• The official website of Burt Kimmelman