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Messages ...Dogs talk to us with their bodies and accept our answers in words. Holes ask for rain; the stunted corpse of an elm is revealed as a sign… - Lisel Mueller
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...Dogs talk to us with their bodies
and accept our answers in words.
Holes ask for rain; the stunted corpse of an elm
is revealed as a sign. We keep breaking
the code of the dead, we reply.
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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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...The foolish old songs were right,
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from trying to push beyond
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but she knows that. ...
tomorrow is something she remembers.
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