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- ↑ Earl G. Ingersoll; Judith Kitchen; Stan Sanvel Rubin, eds. (1989). ""The Holy Words", A Conversation with Paul Zimmer". The Post-confessionals: conversations with American poets of the eighties. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. p. 263. ISBN 978-0-8386-3330-4.
- ↑ Paul Zimmer Papers, Kent State University.
- ↑ Melinda Wilson, "Crossing to Sunlight Revisited: New and Selected Poems by Paul Zimmer", Cold Front, April 20, 2007.
