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Mueller, Lisel

 
9780807121283: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN 10: 0807121282 ISBN 13: 9780807121283
Editorial: LSU Press, 1996

Sinopsis

In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world. It is a testament that invites readers to share her vision of experiences we all have in common: sorrow, tenderness, desire, the revelations of art, and morality, ""the hard, dry smack of death against the glass.""

In the title piece Mueller brings a sense of enduring and unclouded wonder to a recognition of all those whose lives might have been our own. ""Speaking of marvels,"" says the poem's speaker, ""I am alive."" Thus we, too, alive together, are marvels, and so are our children:

who, but for endless ifs,

might have missed out on being alive

together with marvels and follies

and longings and lies and wishes

and error and humor and mercy

and journeys and voices and faces

and colours and summers and mornings

and knowledge and tears and chance.

Imaginative, poignant, and wise, Alive Together is a marvelous book, an act of faith and courage in the face of life's enduring mystery.

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Acerca del autor

Winner of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Prize given by Poetry magazine and a founding member of the Poetry Center of Chicago, Lisel Mueller is the author of seven volumes of poems: Alive Together, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The Need to Hold Still, awarded the 1981 National Book Award for Poetry; Waving from Shore, recipient of a 1990 Carl Sandburg Award; The Private Life, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and three other volumes. She lives in Chicago.

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In a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world. It is a testament that invites readers to share her vision of experiences we all have in common: sorrow, tenderness, desire, the revelations of art, and mortality - "the hard, dry smack of death against the glass". To this community Mueller presents moments after moment where the personal and public realms intersect, where lives ranging from her own to those of Mary Shelley and Anton Webern illuminate the ways in which history shapes our lives. In "Brendel Playing Schubert", Mueller's breathtaking linguistic virtuosity reminds us how music can transport us out of ourselves and into "the nowhere where the enchanted live"; in "Midwinter Notes", the crepuscular world, stripped of its veil, shines forth as a signal from some realm where the sense of things may be revealed. In the title piece Mueller brings a sense of enduring and unclouded wonder to a recognition of all those whose lives might have been our own.

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Editorial
LSU Press
Año de publicación
1996
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ISBN 10 
0807121282
ISBN 13 
9780807121283
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Número de páginas
236
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9780807121276: Alive Together: New and Selected Poems

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ISBN 10:  0807121274 ISBN 13:  9780807121276
Editorial: Louisiana State University Press, 1996
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