After the Fire: A Writer Finds His Place

Paul Zimmer

U of Minnesota Press, 2002 - 229 páginas

The poet describes how he found his interior landscape on his farm in the hills of Wisconsin and shares his insights into the course of his life, from his Canton, Ohio, youth, to his years as a soldier, to his careers as a writer and publisher, using humor and a meditative spirit.

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Poet and essayist Zimmer opens his memoir with a quote from Walt Whitman: "After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on have found that none of these ...

Índice

• Trees: 21
• Sky: 28
• Poetry: 33
• Neighbors: 37
• Birds: 42
• Making Poetry: 48
• Library: 60
• Insects and Arachnids: 65
• Grasses Fruits Plants: 69
• Gardening: 73
• Coyotes Foxes Wolves: 80
• Taking a Punch: 83
• Deer: 100
• The Hunt: 102
• The Blind World: 107
• Trouble: 127
• Dogs: 132
• Old Jazz: 137
• Young Jazz: 139
• Winter: 160
• The Condition of My Faith: 165
• Spring: 182
• Summer: 186
• The Catcher: 190
• Dairy Days: 211
• Autumn: 220

Información bibliográfica

• Título: After the Fire: A Writer Finds His Place
• Autor: Paul Zimmer
• Edición: ilustrada
• Editor: U of Minnesota Press, 2002
• ISBN: 081664019X, 9780816640195
• N.º de páginas: 229 páginas