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Tears She looked at the watchful gazelles and the heavy-lidded frogs; she looked at the glass-eyed birds and nervous, black-eyed mice. None of them w… - Lisel Mueller
" "Tears
She looked at the watchful gazelles
and the heavy-lidded frogs;
she looked at the glass-eyed birds
and nervous, black-eyed mice.
None of them wept, not even the fish
...Not even the man. Only she
carried the sea inside her body.
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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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Curriculum Vitae
<small>1992</small>
2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. ...
5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth.
6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones and primrose marshes...
7) My country was struck by history more deadly than earthquakes and hurricanes.
8) My father was... eluding monsters. My mother told me walls had ears. ...
10) Two parents, two daughters, we followed the sun and the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed behind in the darkness. ...
13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry. ...
14) Ordinary life. Knots tying threads... The past pushed away, the future left unimagined for the... glorious, difficult, passionate present. ...
17) And then my father too disappeared.
18) I tried to go home... at the door to my childhood, but it was closed... 19) One day... everyone's face was younger than mine.
20)...The brilliant days and nights are breathless in their hurry. We follow...
A Grackle Observed
Watching the black grackle
come out...
into the sun, I am dazzled
by an unsuspected sheen,
yellow, purple and green,
...until he, unaware
of what he means...
hops back...
and leaves the shining part
...behind, as though
brightness must outgrow
its... worldly dress
and enter the mind...
as vision... pure light.
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