{"product_id":"alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Alive Together: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e who--but for endless ifs-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e might have missed out on being alive \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e together with marvels and follies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and longings and lies and wishes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and error and humor and mercy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and journeys and voices and faces \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and colors and summers and mornings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and knowledge and tears and chance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImaginative, poignant, and wise--Alive Together is a marvelous book, an act of faith and courage in the face of life's enduring mystery.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Prize given by \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a founding member of the Poetry Center of Chicago, \u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of seven volumes of poems: \u003ci\u003eAlive Together\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eThe Need to Hold Still\u003c\/i\u003e, awarded the 1981 National Book Award for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eWaving from Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of a 1990 Carl Sandburg Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Private Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and three other volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693934972991,"sku":"9780807121283","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/69c901339e37a945f67b05f6c0250c30.webp?v=1765000444","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}