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Waving from shore : poems / by Lisel Mueller

By:

Mueller, Lisel

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1989.Description: viii, 56 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0807115762

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 MUE

LOC classification:

PS3563.U35 W38 1989

Summary: In her fifth collection, Mueller pays attention, above all, to sound, whether the jazz of Charlie Parker or the cry of a "rough-voiced, unfailing'' crow. Poems in Part I are lyrical and personal, yet they keep a mannered distance: `"In winter we close the windows / and read Chekhov / nearly weeping for his world. / What luxury, to be so happy / that we can grieve / over imaginary lives.'' In the book's final two sections, silence enables observation: in prose poems, readers watch deaf people dancing to rock music or actors moving about on a muted television screen through "a life of gestures that make no sense and cannot be altered.'' Soaring above logic, this work enlarges the perceptions that forcefully open the volume.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811 MUE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		058895

In her fifth collection, Mueller pays attention, above all, to sound, whether the jazz of Charlie Parker or the cry of a "rough-voiced, unfailing'' crow. Poems in Part I are lyrical and personal, yet they keep a mannered distance: `"In winter we close the windows / and read Chekhov / nearly weeping for his world. / What luxury, to be so happy / that we can grieve / over imaginary lives.'' In the book's final two sections, silence enables observation: in prose poems, readers watch deaf people dancing to rock music or actors moving about on a muted television screen through "a life of gestures that make no sense and cannot be altered.'' Soaring above logic, this work enlarges the perceptions that forcefully open the volume.

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