Background
Zimmer, Paul Jerome was born on September 18, 1934 in Canton, Ohio, United States. Son of Jerome Francis and Louise Celina (Surmont) Zimmer.
( Crossing to Sunlight Revisited offers both a retrospect...)
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."
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(A collection of more than one hundred poems, Crossing to ...)
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.
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Zimmer, Paul Jerome was born on September 18, 1934 in Canton, Ohio, United States. Son of Jerome Francis and Louise Celina (Surmont) Zimmer.
Bachelor, Kent State University, 1959.
Associate director, U. Pittsburgh Press, 1967-1978; director, U. Georgia Press, Athens, 1978-1984; director, U. Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1984-1997; retired, U. Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1997.
(In his latest collection, Paul Zimmer reaches toward new ...)
(A collection of more than one hundred poems, Crossing to ...)
( Crossing to Sunlight Revisited offers both a retrospect...)
With United States Army, 1954-1955.
Married Suzanne Jane Koklauner, April 4, 1959. Children: Erik Jerome, Justine Mary.