Lisa Zimmerman

Lisa Zimmerman is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Northern Colorado. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in English and History from Colorado State University and received her MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of seven poetry collections, four chapbooks, including Sainted (Main Street Rag 2021) as well as three full-length books–The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press), The Hours I Keep (Main Street Rag), and her debut poetry collection which won the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award from Snake Nation Press. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and five times for the Pushcart Prize. One of her prose poems is included in The Best Small Fictions: 2020 Anthology (Sonder Press).

THE LIGHT AT THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING
BY LISA ZIMMERMAN
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Time and again Lisa Zimmerman gives us exquisite lyrics, of a girl child growing, of a mother watching, of the violation that brushes against us, of the love that disturbs even as we survive this enterprise of living. This is a brave and lovely book of poems. --Meena Alexander

Lisa Zimmerman's poems are deeply humane meditations on joy, loss, love, suffering, but never defeat. The Light at the Edge of Everything is precisely that -- a reservoir of endurance and courage from which we can draw to make a world of luminous presence, through the daily practice of attention, amidst the complexity of living our lives. This is one of those rare big books, in that it offers the reader a chance to "love the story inside the body, / the strange and dangerous narrative." It gives you the courage to "walk out in your bare feet / across the reassuring grass / that will rise up again behind your footprints." -- George Kalamaras

Against a rural American background of horses, hay bales, scratchy junipers, and the refrain of coyotes, Lisa Zimmerman does her best to figure out the mysterious ties that bind us together -- parent, child, lover, spouse. And she fails, beautifully. -- Billy Collins