The Lost Prince (THE DARK BORDER, VOLUME 1)

Literature & Fiction

PAUL ZIMMER

Contemporary

Playboy

“Paul Zimmer, long one of America’s finest poets, turns out to be a comparable master of prose. In his wonderful book of memory and reflection he has written with exquisite elegance and tenderly brilliant observation about his past, and by his genius he evokes a reader’s past as well. This book is as haunting and lovely as a late-night train whistle from the far horizon.”―Robert Olen Butler “Over the years Zimmer’s poems have consistently been full of good sense and buoyant humor. Now he has kicked it up some notches and, using his poetic skills, made this sad, funny, quite serious book of prose about trains, childhood, war, education, drinking, jazz, wooden sheds, grass, elephants, the moon, blues, horses, sickness, and so many other things that come together as a satisfying whole. It is a great pleasure to turn these lyrical, finely-written pages.”―Annie Dillard “Here is an American life remembered faithfully, tellingly, and offered the reader in a compelling, affectingly lyrical voice that touches the mind and heart, both. Here is story after story become, in sum, a rendering through personal expression of a country’s ongoing history. Here is, finally, an autobiography become a literature of social reflection.”―Robert Coles “This deftly written collection satisfies one of our deepest curiosities: ‘What’s it like being her? Or him?’ Paul Zimmer’s answer takes us there by way of steam engines, gray foxes, dray horses, Big Joe Turner, a French dentist tres sympathetique, tumbledown shacks, Duke Ellington’s riffing to empty seats, and a fellow poet heroically obscure, except in Zimmer’s moving homage. To know ourselves we people-watch lifelong, yet glean only vague suppositions. In contrast, these quietly impressive sketches―so much bigger than their pages―add up to a self portrait humane and intimate as kinship.”―Reg Saner

Trains in the Distance

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Kent State University Press

The town of Soldiers Grove is nestled amongst the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin. Its winters are long, its warmer seasons bright and challenging. The population is fewer than 600, including those residing in the senior citizens home. Two of these seniors, Cyril and Louise, have come to live there. Unlikely as it may seem, for they come from very diverse backgrounds, they form a close friendship, and their growing attachment sparks them to adventures and unlikely locations. Ultimately they face frightening circumstances which test them to their limits, while binding and nurturing their growing love for one another. Instead of slipping gracefully away into old age, Cyril and Louise are compelled to protect themselves against a vicious threat when Balaclava, an out-of-town armed sociopath, relentlessly attempts to rob Cyril not only of his life savings but, if necessary, take his life as well. How they ultimately cope with this threat and resolve this crisis has the makings of a first class thriller. This thoughtful, bitter-sweet love story represents and chronicles much about our world and the passage of time in this accomplished work by a prize-winning writer.

The Mysteries of Soldiers Grove

United States

The Permanent Press

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