Mueller, Lisel <br/><br/>
Waving from shore  : poems 
/ by Lisel Mueller 
 - Baton Rouge  : Louisiana State University Press  , 1989. 
 - viii, 56 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807115762 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89012144 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poetry, American
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3563.U35  / W38 1989 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811 MUE