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Poems deal with language, music, memory, mortality, silence, the night, and the past
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Lisel Mueller is the author of seven books of poetry, including Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has also received the National Book Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Prize. She lives in Lake County, Illinois.
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In her fifth collection, Mueller pays attention, above all, to sound, whether the jazz of Charlie Parker or the cry of a "rough-voiced, unfailing" crow. Poems in Part I are lyrical and personal, yet they keep a mannered distance: "In winter we close the windows / and read Chekhov / nearly weeping for his world. / What luxury, to be so happy / that we can grieve / over imaginary lives." In the book's final two sections, silence enables observation: in prose poems, readers watch deaf people dancing to rock music or actors moving about on a muted television screen through "a life of gestures that make no sense and cannot be altered." Soaring above logic, this work enlarges the perceptions that forcefully open the volume. Mueller's The Need to Hold Still won the American Book Award (NBA) in 1981.
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