Crossing to sunlight revisited : new and selected poems / Paul Zimmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmer, Paul.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

ix, 93 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2007]

Summary:

Crossing to Sunlight Revisited offers both a retrospective and a current look at the work of Paul Zimmer. It contains, as Zimmer writes, "a total of seventy-three poems, one for each of the years I have lived." Twenty-three of the poems were not included in Zimmer's previous career-spanning work, Crossing to Sunlight. Being a poet, says Zimmer, is "perhaps the only courageous thing" he has done in his 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."

Contents:

Part 1 Twenty-three New Poems

Because I Am Heir to Many Things 3

Zimmer Lurches from Chair to Chair 4

Three Crows 5

The Moment 6

The Beast of Soldiers Grove 7

Cezanne Pauses in Soldiers Grove 9

New York 3, Soldiers Grove 97 10

In Burkum's Tap 11

A Love Poem for Alyce Husar 12

Beneath Zimmer's Writing Shack Live Groundhogs 14

Bach and My Father 15

Blake and Zimmer 16

One O'clock Jump 17

Dog Music 19

Howdy Duncan Managed Our Team 21

The Light 23

The Planets 24

Amongst the French 25

Love Poem 26

Unscathed 27

What Zimmer Will Do 29

This Small Woman 30

Desiderium 31

Part 2 Fifty Early Poems

The Day Zimmer Lost Religion 35

Zimmer in Grade School 36

What Zimmer Would Be 37

One for the Ladies at the Troy Laundry Who Cooled Themselves for Zimmer 39

Zimmer Guilty of the Burnt Girl 40

Father Animus and Zimmer 41

A Zimmershire Lad 43

An Enzyme Poem for Suzanne 44

Zimmer Envying Elephants 45

Zimmer Loathing the Gentry 46

Zimmer's Bed 47

Wanda Being Beautiful 48

Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow 49

Robyn Hode and Maid Wanda 50

Dear Wanda (Letter from Rollo) 51

Thurman Dreaming in Right Field 52

Thurman's Slumping Blues 53

Someone Points and Says, Up There's Old Thurman 54

Irene Gogle 55

The Eisenhower Years 56

The Duke Ellington Dream 58

The Great House 59

A Final Affection 60

When Angels Came to Zimmer 61

Work 62

Zimmer Imagines Heaven 63

The Origins of Love 64

The Sounds of Magpie 65

The Old Trains at Night 66

Yellow Sonnet 67

Sitting with Lester Young 68

The Tenth Circle 69

The Place 70

The Great Bird of Love 71

The Persistence of Fatherhood 72

What I Know about Owls 73

A Romance for the Wild Turkey 74

The Brain of the Spider 75

But Bird 76

Romance 78

The Existential Year 79

The Beautiful Ethiopian Navy 80

The Weathers of Love 82

Love Poem 84

Big Blue Train 85

The Books 87

Before the Moon Came Up Last Night 88

Suck It Up 89

Passage 91

In Apple Country 92.

ISBN:

9780820329444

0820329444

OCLC:

74492214