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

Kimmelman, Burt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609641345 ISBN 13: 9781609641344

Publisher: BlazeVOX [books], 2013

Synopsis

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 luminosity of objects, art, and one another. That every shadow of wonder can stand forth in the most familiar words is the gift this poet offers his readers time and again. – Susan Howe Praise for Burt Kimmelman's Earlier Poetry “A rare evocation . . . the wonder of this world in itself.” – Robert Creeley “Artful, fastidious, learned . . . I am delighted by so much feeling for style.” – Alfred Kazin “A strict & powerful accounting, leaving me – for one – filled with admiration & hooked on every word.” – Jerome Rothenberg “Form calls deeply to form, as though the works ... lifted one to the very brim of language....” – Michael Heller “Few contemporary poets so gracefully demonstrate classic notions of what the practice of poetry must be.” – Madeline Tiger, Jacket “Exceptionally intelligent and necessary . . ." -– Ed Foster, Poetry Project Newsletter “His confidence lies with the poem itself, that he has found it (or that it has found him)....” – Norman Finkelstein, The Offending Adam “[In Kimmelman's poems] the arts restate the questions we have been asking and the ways they clean and stretch our questions reward us more than answers would.” – William Bronk “As quiet an experience as anyone could wish for.” – Cid Corman “He finds what is luminously transcendent....” – Harvey Shapiro “Worth our own best attention. ” – John Taggart “Attains ‘the simple ... facts’.” – Samuel Menashe “A verse so delicate and so far from insistence....” – Karl Young, Light & Dust “Kimmelman's quiet poems contain the luminescence of perception, its lure, its beauty, its Zen of breath, tracing beauty in the pulse of the extant." -Star Black “Kimmelman's poems attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday." – Eric Hoffman, Rain Taxi

About this title

About the Author

GRADUALLY THE WORLD: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1982-2013 (BlazeVOX [books], 2013) is Burt Kimmelman's eighth collection of poetry. In addition to poetry, Kimmelman has published a number of books of literary criticism and scores of essays on medieval, modern or contemporary poetry. He teaches literary and cultural studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1609641345
• ISBN 13: 9781609641344
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252