{"product_id":"alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-9780807121283","title":"Alive Together: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \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\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631635403026,"sku":"9780807121283","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_afd015ad-b7f7-4864-81c7-cf5e0b5eae32.jpg?v=1732778575","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-9780807121283","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}