"The Great Bird of Love brims with a life so intense that it must be told quietly. The pages are quirky, full of surprise, variety, humor, and the sustaining reliable voice of a worthy guide to experience. These poems come from perception informed by sympathy, and the language is alive with verbal adventure." -- William Stafford A book in the National Poetry Series

GREAT BIRD OF LOVE: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Zimmer, Paul

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Poetry. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ZIMMER brings together a selection from the more than 130 "Zimmer poems" published over the course of forty years, along with new ones never before published. Twenty- five years ago the poet Gerald Stern wrote, "The publication of Zimmer's poems…is a cause for rejoicing among American poets. It should be a cause for rejoicing in general—if only they knew. I know of no poet whose poems are more loving, more wise, more beautiful." THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ZIMMER raffirms that truth and gives us more reason ever to rejoice.

The Importance of Being Zimmer

Settlement House Books

The poet describes how he found his interior landscape on his farm in the hills of Wisconsin and shares his insights into the course of his life, from his Canton, Ohio, youth, to his years as a soldier, to his careers as a writer and publisher, using humor and a meditative spirit.

After The Fire: A Writer Finds His Place

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems

A collection of more than one hundred poems, Crossing to Sunlight offers both a retrospective and current look at the work of Paul Zimmer. Ranging across thirty-five years, the volume begins with Zimmer's early, more structured and traditional writing, moves through the autobiographical poems of his middle years and the creation of his buoyant persona, "Zimmer," and concludes with a generous selection of his mature, new work with its emphasis on durable basic themes.

Univ of Georgia Pr

A rich and varied collection of more than one hundred poems, Crossing to Sunlight ranges across thirty-five years to offer both a retrospective and current look at the work of Paul Zimmer.

Crossing to Sunlight Revisited offers both a retrospective and a current look at the work of Paul Zimmer. It contains twenty-three poems not included in Zimmer's previous career-spanning work, Crossing to Sunlight, or, as Zimmer writes, "a total of seventy-three poems, one for each of the years I have lived."
When Crossing to Sunlight appeared in 1997, the Gettysburg Review described Zimmer as a poet who "invests language with the vitality of desire" and who "unlike many poets in his generation, has forgone stylistic complacency and continued to explore the possibilities inherent in language."
Being a poet, says Zimmer, is "perhaps the only courageous thing I have done in my life." Here is a generous measure of that courage, of that body of work that once moved Robert Olen Butler to write, "I turn again and again to Zimmer's poetry to remind myself what the essence of all literary art is: the moment."

Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems

University of Georgia Press

Poems deal with childhood experiences and emotions, religion, dreams of the past, marriage, and mortality

Family Reunion

University of Pittsburgh Press

Poems deal with childhood experiences and emotions, religion, dreams of the past, marriage, and mortality

Family Reunion: Selected and New Poems

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Live With Animals

Ampersand Pr

Big Blue Train: Poems

Univ of Arkansas Pr

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Books by Zimmer, Paul

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GREAT BIRD OF LOVE: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

The Importance of Being Zimmer

After The Fire: A Writer Finds His Place

Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems

Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems

Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems

Family Reunion

Family Reunion: Selected and New Poems

Live With Animals

Big Blue Train: Poems