Who is Lisel Mueller
Lisel Mueller (born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. Her family fled the Nazi regime, and she arrived in the U.S. in 1939 at the age of 15. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the University of Chicago, Elmhurst College and Goddard College. She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. She received awards including the National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.Life and career
Mueller was born Elisabeth Neumann in Hamburg. Her father, Fritz C. Neumann, was a high school teacher at the Gymnasium Alstertal. A progressive educator...
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Lisel Mueller Poems
- Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny
Jenny, your mind commands
kingdoms of black and white:
you shoulder the crow on your left,
the snowbird on your right; ... - Scenic Route
For Lucy, who called them "ghost houses."
Someone was always leaving ... - Another Version
Our trees are aspens, but people
mistake them for birches;
they think of us as characters
in a Russian novel, Kitty and Levin ... - The Laughter Of Women
The laughter of women sets fire
to the Halls of Injustice
and the false evidence burns
to a beautiful white lightness ... - Bedtime Story
The moon lies on the river
like a drop of oil.
The children come to the banks to be healed
of their wounds and bruises. ...
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Danielc87173381: privilege a guy whose therapist says he demands too little of life sits alone on a frigid morning reading lisel mueller coffee at his elbow cat curled at his feet and feels like . . . a fat catBrainpicker: "in any age, life has to be lived before we can know what it is." i was reminded today of these lines by poet lisel mueller (who died last month at age 96) in my heavily dog-eared copy of her soul-salving book "alone together." more of it here:
Chelsdingman: “we are covered with stars. feel how light they are, our lives.” —lisel mueller
Princessekateri: “what luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.” ~ lisel mueller ‘late hours’
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