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The Laughter of Women ...Prisoners in underground cells imagine that they see daylight when they remember the laughter of women ...What language it i… - Lisel Mueller
" "The Laughter of Women
...Prisoners in underground cells
imagine that they see daylight
when they remember the laughter of women
...What language it is ...
Long before law and scripture
...we understood freedom.
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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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