". . . 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♦ "The sense of number in his writing . . . the littlest words & the small moments through which we live . . . are of a piece. In this there is . . . a strict & powerful accounting, leaving me –for one – filled with admiration & hooked on every word.” - Jerome Rothenberg ♦ “Few contemporary poets so gracefully demonstrate classic notions of what the practice of poetry must be: Kimmelman’s work is carefully wrought, with concision, focus, and the rhythm of musical composition. . . . .”-Madeline Tiger, Jacket  ♦ “In Burt Kimmelman's poems . . . form calls deeply to form, as though the works . . . lifted one to the very brim of language where one could speak . . . of a life caught whole.” - Michael Heller ♦ “[In Kimmelman's work] 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 ♦ “Kimmelman is a poet who obviously admires the clarity of classical Chinese poetry and strives for it in his tight syllabics and in his shifting images of light and dark. In doing so, he finds what is luminously transcendent in the routines of everyday life.” - Harvey Shapiro ♦ “As quiet an experience as anyone could wish for.” - Cid Corman ♦ “[Kimmelman’s] poems evince a quality infrequently encountered in contemporary American poetry: modesty, an attentive and forthright modesty. . . . Modesty in an age of irony is infrequent, rare . . . worth our own best attention. These poems are 'worth it'.” - John Taggart ♦ “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 ♦ “Burt Kimmelman’s sense of the whole poem, or what Zukofsky famously calls the “rested totality,” is as impressive as that of his precursors [Oppen, Bronk, Creeley et al.], and in one respect, it exceeds them. He is a remarkably confident poet, though not confident in his self, his ego, or even his craft, his way with words, though he has every right to be. His confidence lies with the poem itself, that he has found it (or that it has found him), and that he can proceed through the poem, knowing that if he follows himself sincerely, the words will be there for him.” - Norman Finkelstein, The Offending Adam ♦ ". . . a verse so delicate and so far from insistence. . . . He seems to me at the beginning of 2012 the poet who takes the place of Rexroth, Blackburn, and Olson as a clean, clear, accessible starting point for any serious poet.” - Karl Young, Light & Dust ♦ "Burt Kimmelman is a master of a poetry of cinematique [. . .] he establishes a visual field of images and action which he offers to the reader as an embodiment of important implications. [The] sense of place itself becomes a part of the theme of the work that it exists in, [the reader] having been witness through the author's eyes to a world the very sights of which create a desire to understand its meaning and a need to accept what's seen as the stuff author and audience are made of." -Sherry Kearns, Home Planet News  ♦ "Burt Kimmelman sees with unerring clarity the small moments that enrich our lives. He doesn't pass through life blindly. He doesn't rage wildly. He searches for and celebrates each stark, harsh, sad, tender, and joyful moment through words and shares them freely. His work is exceptional and highly recommended." - Laurel Johnson,Midwest Book Review  ♦ “Burt Kimmelman’s poems flourish as they pivot from a repertoire of reiterated subjects—works of art, natural landscapes, family, the animal world—to a transfiguring notion of their properties and possibilities. For over twenty-five years, this practice has produced dynamic patterns of insight, patterns comprised of recurring figures and forms which nevertheless shift in their relations to his poetic witness.” - Jon Curley, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics ♦“. . . everything comes together so beautifully you will just feel sad it’s ended. . . .”  - Kevin Killian, Amazon.com: About Kevin Killian: Reviews ♦“. . . Kimmelman focuses on daily experiences in ways that makes us take another look at them. He steps back to ponder, and in so doing, makes us do the same.”—William Allegrezza, Galatea Resurrects  ♦ ". . . the poems flex with perception and feeling." - Bernie Earley, Otoliths ♦ "The poems . . . have the spiritual resonance of a talented poet humble before nature, love, and language. In engaging a world larger than himself, Burt Kimmelman offers us poems that feel like a gift." - Deborah Diemont, NewPages  ♦ "We've waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline. In fact, Somehow calls out with our words to make phrases, to mythologize our existence, to speak for us." -  Gerald Schwartz, Home Planet News ♦ "This is a carefully calibrated poetic vision filled with insights and worded with casual, unassuming grace. . . . Kimmelman's poems attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday." - Eric Hoffman, Rain Taxi