Amie Zimmerman’s “False Spring”

Amie Zimmerman’s False Spring
with imogen smith, Hannah Tishkoff and Alma Valdez-Garcia

Sunday, February 15
Doors: 7pm
Reading: 7:30pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives

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The Poetic Research Bureau presents the Los Angeles launch of Amie Zimmerman’s False Spring, published by Roof Books. With imogen smith, Hannah Tishkoff and Alma Valdez-Garcia.

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Amie Zimmerman’s False Spring, her first collection, rings true in its politics and its form. Today, when poetry’s circuitous approaches remain the norm, Zimmerman tackles the problems of the moment head on: “this war is a real war / voting can’t fix.” Zimmerman is not conciliatory in any meaningful way: “if we organize around the kindness principle / we’ll get bullets in our eyes.” Her politics and her unremitting insistence to be herself appear in the way every word connects to its neighbor: “what is the value of here / here.” False Spring shows the reader how to “…learn / how to love something / more than yourself.”