GREAT BIRD OF LOVE: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

By Paul Zimmer

"The Great Bird of Love brims with a life so intense that it must be told quietly. The pages are quirky, full of surprise, variety, humor, and the sustaining reliable voice of a worthy guide to experience. These poems come from perception informed by sympathy, and the language is alive with verbal adventure." -- William Stafford A book in the National Poetry Series

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252060601
• ISBN13: 9780252060601
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

you will love this book

This short book has one powerful poem after another. Zimmer's images pull you into each poem, as the persona of "The Zimmer" comes of age and learns about life. It's a cohesive collection that reads like a story, filled with the joys and sorrows of life. Celebrating things such as beer and love, and lamenting the aging of a father and the selling of a childhood home, this book will have you smiling on one page and then bring you close to tears a few pages later.