The Need to Hold Still: Poems - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807106709ISBN-10:807106704UPC:9780807106709Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.02 x 5.49 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC882T8Z04
The Need to Hold Still: Poems
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
An adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser's works she finds language solid, "as plain as money, / a workable means of exchange." More often she experiences exhilaration in the shapes that communication makes possible. In "Talking with Helen," for example, she re-creates Heller Keller's flash of...Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807106709ISBN-10:807106704UPC:9780807106709Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:9.02 x 5.49 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SC882T8Z04
Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1924. She published six books of poetry with LSU Press, including Alive Together: New & Selected Poems (1996), which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize; Waving from Shore (1989); Second Language (1986); The Need to Hold Still (1980), winner of the National Book Award; The Private Life, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection; and Dependencies (1998). Her...
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