Paul Zimmer (born 1934 in Canton, Ohio) is an American poet, and editor.
He has directed the university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh, and helped found the Pitt Poetry Series.
[2] It 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]