{"product_id":"alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-9780807121283","title":"Alive Together: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a collection that represents over thirty-five years of her writing life, this distinguished poet explores a wide range of subjects, which include her cultural and family history and reflect her fascination with music and the discoveries offered by language. In fact, her book is a testament to the miraculous power of language to interpret and transform our world. It is a testament that invites readers to share her vision of experiences we all have in common: sorrow, tenderness, desire, the revelations of art, and morality--\"the hard, dry smack of death against the glass.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e who--but for endless ifs-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e might have missed out on being alive \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e together with marvels and follies \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and longings and lies and wishes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and error and humor and mercy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and journeys and voices and faces \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and colors and summers and mornings \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e and knowledge and tears and chance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImaginative, poignant, and wise--Alive Together is a marvelous book, an act of faith and courage in the face of life's enduring mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-242689\"\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807121283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807121282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005010\"\u003eAmerican | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Prize given by \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and a founding member of the Poetry Center of Chicago, \u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of seven volumes of poems: \u003ci\u003eAlive Together\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eThe Need to Hold Still\u003c\/i\u003e, awarded the 1981 National Book Award for Poetry; \u003ci\u003eWaving from Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of a 1990 Carl Sandburg Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Private Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and three other volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699395105005,"sku":"9780807121283","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1e889c00-60e2-4a94-b042-a74e17b0e480.jpg?v=1649917106","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-9780807121283","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}