The Importance of Being Zimmer

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.