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050	0	0	_aPS3563.U35 _bW38 1989
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100	1		_aMueller, Lisel
245	1	0	_aWaving from shore _b: poems _c/ by Lisel Mueller
260			_aBaton Rouge _b: Louisiana State University Press _c, 1989.
300			_aviii, 56 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_aIn 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.
650		4	_aPoetry, American
942			_cMO
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