Kimmelman, Burt: A Door, a Window

Marsh Hawk Press, paperback

Publication Date: November 1, 2025

Publisher Marketing:

Burt Kimmelman's readership is one that is made of poets and others who read poetry carefully. They're drawn to his poems' precision, understatement, and vivid realizations of places (e.g., in a city) and in nature.

"Kimmelman creates himself through effacement, humility, the joy and terror of being alive."-- Hasanthika Sirisena, American Book Review

"Kimmelman's poems attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday."-- Eric Hoffman, Rain Taxi

"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, American poet

"He observes the natural world, the plaintive cry noted, but never breaking the reverie."-- Michael Heller, American poet

"...a strict and powerful accounting, leaving me--for one--filled with admiration and hooked on every word." -- Jerome Rothenberg, American poet and translator

"A rare evocation . . . the wonder of this world in itself." -- Robert Creeley, American poet

"He finds what is luminously transcendent."-- Harvey Shapiro, American poet and editor

"His poems so gracefully demonstrate classic notions of what the practice of poetry must be."-- Madeline Tiger, Reviewer, Jacket2