Paul Zimmer
Autor(a) de Family Reunion: Selected and New Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
About the Author
Paul Zimmer is a much honored and widely published poet and essayist, the author of eight volumes of poetry. His work has received awards from the American Institute of Arts and Letters and been selected for the National Poetry Series. He was a finalist in the essay category for the 1998 National mostrar mais Magazine Award, and for the past two years his works have been selected as notable essays in the Best American Essays series. Zimmer lives on a farm near Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, and spends part of each year in the south of France mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) Not the same as SF novelist, SCA founder, and poet Paul Edwin Zimmer.
Obras de Paul Zimmer
The republic of many voices 4 cópias
Soaring with the Wind 1 exemplar(es)
Celtic Dreams 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 926 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1934
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Canton, Ohio, USA
- Educação
- Kent State University
- Ocupação
- poet
- Premiações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1985)
- Aviso de desambiguação
- Not the same as SF novelist, SCA founder, and poet Paul Edwin Zimmer.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 111
- Popularidade
- #175,484
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 22
Old Cyril’s clear voice rings, honed on encyclopedias of youth. His tales of famous lives, and his wonderful observation of detail and scenery, have me wanting to turn to google, but I’d rather turn pages. Because now, that man whose friends were histories has “grown old and require[s] assisted living.” Meanwhile Louise turns her hearing aids up and closes her eyes. Will assisted living deprive her of all her music, life and art? Are her memories of French childhood, and of her Wisconsin husband rolling hay “bales like poems,” all to be lost in the overwhelming emptying of age?
Humor and dialog draw you into this tale, well past pathos to honest fascination, joy and hope. The author enters the minds of both his characters convincingly, telling their parallel lives in first person, switching from one to the other with wonderful timing, and blending honest elderly romance—“I wish I could hold his hand, but we are both occupied with our canes”—with just the right amount of mystery and threat. Old love is indeed “a very, very fine thing,” old age is a mystery approaching its own dark finality, and old lives are well worth reading and remembering in this wonderful tale.
Disclosure: The publisher gave me a free preview edition and it’s possibly my new all-time favorite book!… (mais)