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Why I Need the Birds ...By the time I arrive at evening, ...they are turning into the dreamwork of trees; and all of us... myself and the purple finc… - Lisel Mueller
" "Why I Need the Birds
...By the time I arrive at evening,
...they are turning
into the dreamwork of trees;
and all of us...
myself and the purple finches,
and rusty blackbirds,
the ruby cardinals,
the white-throated sparrows
with their liquid voices—
ride the dark curve of the earth
toward daylight, which they announce
from their high lookouts
before dawn has quite broken...
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About 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 , Elmhurst College and . She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. She received awards including the in 1981 and the for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.
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"O Brave New World,
That Hath Such People In It"
Soon you will be like her, 's daughter,
finding the door that leads out of yourself
...where you live with the gracious and light-footed creatures
that thrive in the glaze of your art and freedom.
...Soon you will
...banish yourself from the one flawless place.
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