Paul Zimmer (poet)
Paul Zimmer (born 1934 Canton, Ohio) is an American poet, and editor.
Life
He worked as a news reporter for the United States Army from 1954-1955 and covered atomic bomb tests in Nevada. In 1967, Zimmer began his publishing career with the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, The Ribs of Death, was published. For this accomplishment he received Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree from Kent State University in 1968.
He has directed the university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, and was instrumental in the foundation of the Pitt Poetry Series.[1]
His papers are held at Kent State.[2]
Awards
- Open Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1998 National Poetry Series, for The Great Bird of Love
- Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University in 2004.
- two NEA fellowships
- Helen Bullis Memorial Award
- two Pushcart Prizes,
Works
- A Seed in the Wind, Three Rivers Press, C.M.U., 1975
- The Ribs of Death, October House, 1967
- The Republic of Many Voices, October House, 1969
- The Zimmer Poems. Dryad Press. 1976. ISBN 9780931848162.
- With Wanda: Town and Country Poems. Dryad Press. 1980. ISBN 9780931848322.
- Family Reunion: Selected and New Poems (1983)
- The Great Bird of Love (1989)
- Big Blue Train. University of Arkansas Press. 1993. ISBN 9781557282972.
- Crossing Into Sunlight. University of Georgia Press. 1996. ISBN 9780820318295.
- Crossing to Sunlight Revisited. University of Georgia Press. 2007. ISBN 9780820329444.
Anthologies
- Garrison Keillor, ed. (2006). "Suck It Up". Good Poems for Hard Times. Penguin Group. ISBN 9780143037675.
- Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 9780812968873.
Memoir
- Trains in the distance. Kent State University Press. 2003. ISBN 9780873387965.
- After the fire: a writer finds his place. University of Minnesota Press. 2002. ISBN 9780816640195.
Reviews
t is not often that a “new and selected” documents the progressions, departures, and returns of a writer’s consciousness as lucidly and profoundly as Paul Zimmer’s Crossing to Sunlight Revisited (the long-awaited sequel to 1996’s Crossing to Sunlight: Selected Poems). Zimmer’s newer poems are at the start of the book; they chronicle his ascension into, what seems to be, comfortable old age. Note that “old” is not my word here; in fact, in his preface, Zimmer informs us that he is “no longer an aging poet or an older poet.” He says, “I am an old poet.” [3]
References
External links
- ""The Holy Words", A Conversation with Paul Zimmer". The Post-confessionals: conversations with American poets of the eighties. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1989. ISBN 9780838633304.
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