On Other Poets

“Thinking about Conceptualism, Kenny Goldsmith and Michael Brown," http://burtkimmelman.com/KimmelmanFacebookPost3June2015.html

“The New New England Mind: Perry Miller, F. O. Matthiesen, Henry David Thoreau, William Bronk, Susan Howe, and the Reimagining of Place,"Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 43 (January 2015), talismanmag.net/kimmelman--new-england.html

Review of  Joyride by Thomas Fink, Jacket2 (July 2014), jacket2.org/reviews/let-em-eat-kitsch

"Our Anxiety in Reading William Bronk," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 41 (January 2013): http://www.talismanmag.net/kimmelmanbronk.html

Review of Divine Madness by Paul Pines, Galatea Resurrects 19 (December 2012), http://galatearesurrection19.blogspot.com/2012/12/divine-madness-by-paul-pines.html

Samuel Menashe, 1925-2011 (click here)

“Learning to Draw, Learning to Paint, Learning to Write: On Basil King” [Review Essay Retrospective of 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Bestiary, The Poet, Twin Towers, The Complete Miniatures, Devotions, Mirage, Identity, and Warp Spasm, by Basil King]Galatea Resurrects 9 (31 March 2008),  http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/eight-publications-by-basil-king.html 

Review of In the Eyes of a Dog by Kevin Pilkington, Valparaiso Poetry Review XI.2 (Spring/Summer 2010), http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/kimmelmanreviewpilkington.html

Review of Forty-Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death by Sandy McIntosh, Galatea Resurrects (30 November 2007), http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/forty-nine-guaranteed-ways-to-escape.html

“The Presence and Absence of the Text: Norman Finkeltstein’s Recent and Early Poetry” [Review Essay Retrospective of Restless Messengers, Passing Over, and Track by Norman Finkelstein], Galatea Resurrects 8 (30 November 2007),
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/five-books-by-norman-finkelstein.html

Fall Book Launch Introduction of The Light Sang as It Left Your Eyes by Eileen Tabios, Marsh Hawk Blog (24 September 2007), http://mhpress.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html#8509809001109599065#8509809001109599065

“Enid Dame’s Householdry,” Rain Taxi http://www.raintaxi.com/%20%28Summer%202009), http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/dame.shtml

“George Oppen’s ‘Psalm’: Manifest Things and a Poet’s Words,” BigBridge 14 (2009), http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/OP-KIM.HTM

“George Oppen and Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy and Poetry of Gelassenheit, and the Language of Faith,” Jacket 37 (Early 2009), http://jacketmagazine.com/37/kimmelman-oppen-heidegger.shtml

“'Art new, hurt old': “A”, Ulysses, and Modernist Intertextuality," FlashPoint 7 (Summer 2004), http://www.flashpointmag.com/kimmlzuk.htm

“From Black MountainCollege to St. Mark’s Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, di Prima, and Oppenheimer,” RainTaxi (Spring 2002), http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/poetryproject.shtml

“Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism,” FlashPoint 5 (Spring 2002), http://www.flashpointmag.com/kimelman.htm  

"The William Bronk – Charles Olson Correspondence,"  Minutes of the Charles Olson Society 22 (special issue, January 1998), pp. 2-6; republished in Otoliths 17 (1 May 2010), http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/04/poet-editors-2-burt-kimmelman-william.html

“Editing the Words of Poets beyond Their Poems,” Otoliths 17 (1 May 2010), http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/04/poet-editors-1-burt-kimmelman.html

“‘Art As a Way’: ‘Absence and Presence, Aesthetics and Friendship in the William Bronk – Robert Meyer Correspondence,” in The Body of this Life: Reading William Bronk, Ed. and Intr. David Clippinger, Jersey City: Talisman House Publishers, 2001, pp. 40-52; republished in Otoliths 17 (1 May 2010), http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2010/04/poet-editors-3-burt-kimmelman.html

Paul Blackburn's The Journals (at the Modern American Poetry website: scroll down), http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/blackburn/poetry.htm

Howard Moss, http://burtkimmelman.com/moss.htm

William Bronk, http://burtkimmelman.com/bronk.htm

Black Mountain Poetry, http://burtkimmelman.com/blackmountain.htm

“’That they are there’: Aletheia, Thingliness, and the Question of Poetry in Heidegger and Oppen,” invited presentation for the George Oppen Centennial Conference, Poets House / Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York City (Spring 2008), voice recording published at PennSound (May 2008), http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Oppen-Centennial-NYC.html

 "Burt Kimmelman in conversation with Thomas Fink, 2010" (Interview), Jacket 40 (July 2010): http://jacketmagazine.com/40/iv-kimmelman-ivb-fink.shtml

A listing of hard-copy critical essays and reviews on poets, and other critical publications, can be found: Here.

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