{"product_id":"second-language-poems-9780807113370","title":"Second Language: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecond Language\u003c\/i\u003e is the fourth volume of work from the highly acclaimed poet Lisel Mueller. The second language of the title, English, supplanted Mueller's native language when she came to the United States from Hitler's Germany at age fifteen. But other second languages are at work here as well. The poems in this collection have to do with memory and metaphor, two forces that enable us to interpret our experience. Each is in a sense a second language, and in Mueller's employ each gains expression in an imaginative and humanistic voice. In \"English as a Second Language,\" the various meanings of \u003ci\u003eSecond Language\u003c\/i\u003e come together lucidly and effectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1924. She published six books of poetry with LSU Press, including \u003ci\u003eAlive Together: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize; \u003ci\u003eWaving from Shore\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); \u003ci\u003eSecond Language\u003c\/i\u003e (1986); \u003ci\u003eThe Need to Hold Still\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), winner of the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Private Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection; and \u003ci\u003eDependencies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). Her writing honors included the Carl Sandburg Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503883522322,"sku":"9780807113370","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5561899-f10e-4385-9d97-b851e99ae861.jpg?v=1730802299","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/second-language-poems-9780807113370","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}