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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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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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