Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
by Lisel Mueller
Summary
This career-spanning volume reflects on emigration, the German language left behind, family loss, and the slow accumulation of an American life. Mueller writes in lucid, gently cadenced lines whose apparent simplicity holds historical weight just beneath the surface. The book honors both the violence of the twentieth century and the small, surviving graces of a chosen home.
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Historical Context & Significance
Mueller fled Germany at age 15; her poetry finds wonder in the stability of domestic life and the English language.