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An Unanswered Question If I had been the lone survivor of my Tasmanian tribe, the only person in the world to speak my language (as she was), ...and … - Lisel Mueller
" "An Unanswered Question
If I had been the lone survivor
of my Tasmanian tribe,
the only person in the world
to speak my language
(as she was),
...and if among all those people
staring and pointing and laughing
and making their meaningless sounds
there had been one thoughtful face,
who might have instinctively understood
...the indispensable word
I must pass through the bars
...what word would it have been?
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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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On Reading An Anthology of Postwar German Poetry
America saved me
...I was not crushed
under rubble, nor was I beaten
along a frozen highway;
my children are not dead
of postwar hunger;
...I have forced no one
into a chamber of death.
...I know enough to refuse to say
that life is good,
but I act as though it were,
and skeptical about love, I survive
by the witness of my own.
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