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Burt Kimmelman |
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Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry Musaics (Spuyten Duyvil, 1992), First Life (Jensen/Daniels, 2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), and There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007); his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Edvard Munch's Despair, 1892
Museum of Modern Art, 2006
He is looking over the rail
of the promenade, but he sees
nothing, caught in the thought of the
helplessno, not even a thought
despair itself, as undefined
as the dark, thick brushstrokes, the stabs
of green paint below his blank face.
People walk and talk together,
out of earshot, making plans, while
the red sky, its long cloudless arcs,
surges above blue hills hugging
the sea, its ships making their way.
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© 2008 The Cortland Review |
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