"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...