Alive Together: New and Selected Poems - Hardcover

Mueller, Lisel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807121274 ISBN 13: 9780807121276

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 1996

Synopsis

In a collection of writing that represents 35 years of her writing life, Lisel Mueller explores a range of subjects which include her cultural and family history, and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language.

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From the Publisher

"Alive Together" winner of 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Congratulations to LSU Press poet Lisel Mueller, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book "Alive Together: New and Selected Poems"! ["Mueller's work possesses such power and authority that this collection that includes poems from her previous five books and a significant set of new poems is cause for celebration. . . . Mueller's marvelous, lyric talent deserves much wider acclaim."--Booklist]. Please take a look at Mueller's other titles, also available through Amazon.com.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807121274
• ISBN 13: 9780807121276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232