{"product_id":"alive-together-lisel-mueller-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 Lisel Mueller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807121282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807121283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/28\/1996 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1996 pg. 400","brand":"Lisel Mueller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050556715263,"sku":"9780807121283","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c35c259-d0b4-493c-a050-34552e7de2ed.jpg?v=1685007934","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alive-together-lisel-mueller-9780807121283","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}