Burt Kimmelman
"Samuel Menashe, New York Poet of Short Verse, Dies at 85"
New York Times, August 23, 2011
Your ashes
In an urn
Buried here
Make me burn
For dear life. . .
– Samuel Menashe
Words let us
live — so you
read them twice,
your voice for
good measure,
though you knew
how silence
could make them
beautiful.
Bio
Burt Kimmelman has published seven collections of poetry - most recently The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011). "Taking Dinner to My Mother," a poem from his previous collection As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), was featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. He teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology, and has authored or edited a number of book-length literary studies including his monograph The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), as well as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. Recent interviews of Kimmelman are available online: with Tom Fink in Jacket 40 (text), and with George Spencer on Poetry Thin Air (video). More information and samples of his poetry and other work can be found at BurtKimmelman.com.