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Titre: Alive Together
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: New and Selected Poems
Auteur: Lisel Mueller
Format: Poche
EAN: 9780807121283
ISBN: 9780807121283
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Date de publication: 1996-10-30
Description: 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.
Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 229
Item Length: 140.00
Année de publication: 1996

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