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Author Zimmer, Paul

Title After the fire : a writer finds his place / Paul Zimmer
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 229 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments -- Prologue : finding home -- Strangers in friendly places -- Trees -- Sky -- Poetry -- Neighbors -- Birds -- Making poetry -- Library -- Insects and arachnids -- Grasses, fruits, plants -- Gardening -- Coyotes, foxes, wolves -- Taking a punch -- Deer -- The hunt -- The blind world -- Trouble -- Dogs -- Old jazz -- Young jazz -- Winter -- The condition of my faith -- Spring -- Summer -- The catcher -- Dairy days -- Autumn
Summary After the Fire is the story of the poet Paul Zimmers journey from his boyhood in Canton, Ohio, and his days as a soldier during atomic tests in the Nevada desert, to his many years as a writer and publisher, and the rural tranquility of his present life. Zimmer juxtaposes timeless rustic subjects with flashbacks to key moments: his first and only boxing match, his return to the France of his ancestors, his painful departure from the publishing world after forty years. These stories are full of humor and pathos, but the real center of the book is the abiding beauty of the driftless hills, the
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Subject Zimmer, Paul -- Homes and haunts -- Wisconsin
SUBJECT Zimmer, Paul fast
Subject Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Country life -- Wisconsin
POETRY -- American -- General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Country life
Homes
Intellectual life
Manners and customs
Poets, American
SUBJECT Wisconsin -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Wisconsin -- Social life and customs
Subject Wisconsin
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816694082
0816694087