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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 vis mere 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 vis mindre
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(eng) Not the same as SF novelist, SCA founder, and poet Paul Edwin Zimmer.

Værker af Paul Zimmer

The ribs of death (1967) 8 eksemplarer
The Zimmer Poems (1976) 7 eksemplarer
Big Blue Train: Poems (1993) 5 eksemplarer
The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove (2015) 4 eksemplarer
Trains in the distance (2004) 2 eksemplarer
The ancient wars (1981) 2 eksemplarer
The American Zimmer (1984) 1 eksemplar
Celtic Dreams 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver915 eksemplarer
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Bidragyder — 766 eksemplarer
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Bidragyder; Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (1993) — Bidragyder — 20 eksemplarer
Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest (1993) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer

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Fødselsdato
1934
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Canton, Ohio, USA
Uddannelse
Kent State University
Erhverv
poet
Priser og hædersbevisninger
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1985)
Oplysning om flertydighed
Not the same as SF novelist, SCA founder, and poet Paul Edwin Zimmer.

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Growing old is no fun, or so my Mum tells me. The characters of Paul Zimmer’s The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove might agree, as lives of field, farm, and bar are curtailed, replaced by walking cane and tasteless dining hall dinners. But this is a love story, and there’s freedom in a door left ajar. With forbidden transport parked outside, wonderful ladies maintaining an old book shop just a short drive away, and mysterious threats from a stranger, this novel’s filled with real lives lived larger than the world’s intent.

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!
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SheilaDeeth | Jan 29, 2015 |

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Værker
16
Also by
6
Medlemmer
112
Popularitet
#174,306
Vurdering
4.0
Anmeldelser
1
ISBN
22

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