Bright Exit

Bright Exit
By:Laurie Zimmerman
Published on 2014-06-29 by

PRAISE FOR BRIGHT EXIT |Honesty will never go out of fashion in poetry, especially as it is channeled through the clean lyrics of Laurie Zimmerman's Bright Exit. These poems are so searching; they press against the veil of appearances, demanding to learn the truth of what's really there --tender hearted, and sensuous, sure, but equally smart and tough-minded, repeatedly, impressively refusing easy sentimentality. It's that rigor of honesty that makes these poems the rich, reliable tutorial in soul-making that they are. I relish them.| -TONY HOAGLAND, author of Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda Dynasty |Toward the end of Mann's |Tonio Kroeger,| the artist declares that for him nothing is |sweeter and more worth knowing than longing after the bliss of the commonplace.| Laurie Zimmerman's poems are grounded in that same sense. She has a great eye for detail (a bird has |tiny noduled feet,| mussels have |blue doors, thin wings opening and closing|) and a great heart for the larger events of human life: |Celebration Fragments| is one of a group of poems about coming through breast cancer that are heart-breaking, celebratory and true. The tone is always modest, but poem after surprising poem is the work of a wise and humane new writer.| -ED OCHESTER, Editor, Pitt Poetry Series & author of Sugar Run Road |Laurie Zimmerman's collection Bright Exit is a study in loss-loss of names, loss of identity, loss of relationships, loss of footing in the world: |Someone is saying goodbye. Someone/is saying I'm dying and hello.| But these losses do not drown the poet or the reader. Instead Zimmerman's poetry provides a tender and sure kind of lift out of what could be despair. Her words move the reader toward an understanding that even such a collection of losses can lead us toward a new sense of self and the world around us all, and even as the last poem in this wonderful collection ends, and |the poem folds its wings/but another happiness/flies up,| readers get to fly with it, buoyed by all of these fine poems.| -GILLIAN WEGENER, author of The Opposite of Clairvoyance

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