"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...
"Crossing to Sunlight Revisited" offers both a retrospective and a current look at the work of Paul Zimmer. It contains twenty-three poems not incl...
"Paul Zimmer, long one of America's finest poets, turns out to be a comparable master of prose. In his wonderful book of memory and reflection he has written with exquisite elegance and tenderly brilliant observation about his past, and by his genius he evokes a reader's past as well. This book is as haunting and lovely as a late-night train whistle from the far horizon."--Robert Olen Butler
"Over the years Zimmer's poems have consistently been full of good sense and buoyant humor. Now he has kicked it up some notches and, using his poetic skills, made this sad, funny, quite...
"Paul Zimmer, long one of America's finest poets, turns out to be a comparable master of prose. In his wonderful book of memory and reflection he has ...