Description
In the title piece Mueller brings a sense of enduring and unclouded wonder to a recognition of all those whose lives might have been our own. ""Speaking of marvels,"" says the poem's speaker, ""I am alive."" Thus we, too, alive together, are marvels, and so are our children:
who, but for endless ifs,
might have missed out on being alive
together with marvels and follies
and longings and lies and wishes
and error and humor and mercy
and journeys and voices and faces
and colours and summers and mornings
and knowledge and tears and chance.
Imaginative, poignant, and wise, Alive Together is a marvelous book, an act of faith and courage in the face of life's enduring mystery.
About the Author
Winner of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Prize given by Poetry magazine and a founding member of the Poetry Center of Chicago, Lisel Mueller is the author of seven volumes of poems: Alive Together, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The Need to Hold Still, awarded the 1981 National Book Award for Poetry; Waving from Shore, recipient of a 1990 Carl Sandburg Award; The Private Life, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and three other volumes. She lives in Chicago.
Awards
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1997.
Book Information
ISBN 9780807121283
Author Lisel Mueller
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Louisiana State University Press
Publisher Louisiana State University Press