Product Description: The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory is the first comprehensive treatment of a singularly important American poet of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Michael Heller (b. 1937) has amassed a body of poetry and criticism that places him in the vanguard of modern literature, and this essay collection provides the first extensive critical treatment of his varied career...read more

Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Essays on the major American poet William Bronk by the following distinguished poets and critics: Jane Augustine, J. M. Bober, Jon Curley, Stephan Delbos, Deborah Diemont, Joseph Donahue, Norman Finkelstein, Edward Foster, Eric Hoffman, W...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "Burt Kimmelman is a poet who trusts what is: the continuous autonomy of two people in a close marriage, the unalterable passage of time, the lies the mirror tells us, the comfort of 'simply living / among the objects of the day...read more

Product Description: Poetry. "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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Includes more than six hundred A-to-Z entries which provide concise information on particular poems, poets, and subjects which have contributed to this literary form.

Product Description: Poetry. "In FIRST LIFE, Burt Kimmelman captures the tactile language of childhood and the sensate world of the pre-verbal and newly verbal. His poems are intricate and wise nursery rhymes exploring the intimacies of family life-what takes place just off camera in home videos, right outside the frames of snapshots"-Denise Duhamel...read more

Product Description: Literary individualism first manifests itself in the twelfth century in word puzzles and overt self-naming, as well as in discussions about the nature of writing and the role of the poet in the world. Guillem IX, Marcabru, Dante, Chaucer, and Langland were poets and intellectuals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This first full-length study of William Bronk, one of our most important contemporary poets and essayists, locates his work in relation to the New England literary tradition, Modernism, and the Objectivist and Black Mountain schools of poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Poetry. MUSAICS is a book of poems about art and the experience of viewing art in museums. "In Burt Kimmelman's poems, form calls deeply to form as though the works of art, the paintings and sculptures of the titles, lifted one to the very brim of the language where one could speak, not museum notes, but of a life caught whole" Michael Heller...read more