Collected Poems - Couverture souple

Kimmet, Gene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0999718258 ISBN 13 : 9780999718254

Editeur : Canopic Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Gene Kimmet's Collected Poems gathers the poet's four collections into a single volume.

The first collection in the Gene Kimmet canon is In Fee Simple (Stormline Press, 1986). In the book’s foreword, poet Dave Etter observes that “the people and places he (Kimmet) writes about he knows, and his work rests on the solid ground of personal experience.” This was followed by Skipping Stone (Dream Stone Press, 2000). Jean Tolle tells us that in Kimmet’s second collection “the reader encounters the ordinary, the mundane, lifted to the universal by an eye that sees what we, too, have seen but not understood so well.”

In 2015 Canopic Publishing published Recollections of My Father, Kimmet’s third collection. Michael F. Latza, editor of Willow Review, says that in Recollections Kimmet “deftly places us all into the impetus of the moment.” Shadows, his final collection, was published by Canopic in 2019. Written primarily during the months following his wife Gloria’s death, Shadows is a melodic and profound exploration from a the sharp mind of nonagenarian. These four volumes constitute the entirety of the Collected Poems of Gene Kimmet and serve as a suitable and lasting testament to an important voice and a marvelous poet.
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Born in the industrial town of Lima, Ohio, Gene Kimmet’s childhood environment was dominated by “smoke and trains / Where remote fathers carried their silence /And despair each morning into the dust / And fire of the mills” (“Letter to Miss McClurg”). Quiet interludes of hunting in nearby woods and fields provided a deep connection with nature. He began employment while still in school, working as a lens grinder, foundry worker, service station worker, salesman, and other jobs over the years. Images of these experiences—gradually tempered by the wisdom of age—bloom throughout his poetry.

Kimmet was in his early thirties when he entered Ohio Northern University in pursuit of a B.A. degree in economics. He would go on to earn an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University and a Post Master’s degree from Northern Illinois University in the same field. This education was the foundation for his vocation as a professor of economics, teaching first at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, and then at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.
Throughout his academic career, Kimmet was growing as a poet—and gaining recognition in the process. He was published in a wide assortment of literary magazines and journals, including Spoon River Anthology and Arkansas Review. He did extensive graduate work in English and creative writing at Northern Illinois University and the University of Virginia. In Skipping Stone he expresses gratitude for Lucien Stryk at NIU and Gregory Orr at the UV “for their kind guidance and the example of their towering talent.” Interacting with these and other poets—something for which he had a talent—helped Kimmet find and finely hone his own poetic voice.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canopic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0999718258
• ISBN 13: 9780999718254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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