Author: Lisel Mueller

You have read War and Peace. Now here is Sister Carrie, Not up to Tolstoy; still It will second the […]

In 1936, a child In Hitler’s Germany, What did I know about the war in Spain? Andalusia was a tango […]

1992 1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, […]

If an inaudible whistle Blown between our lips Can send him home to us, Then silence is perhaps The sound […]

Such insignificance: a glance At your record on the doctor’s desk Or a letter not meant for you. How could […]

Among rocks, I am the loose one, Among aarows, I am the heart, Among daughters, I am the recluse, Among […]

I. Insomnia The bulb at the front door burns and burns. If it were a white rose it would tire […]

In Sleeping Beauty’s castle The clock strikes one hundred years And the girl in the tower returns to the world. […]

What happened is, we grew lonely Living among the things, So we gave the clock a face, The chair a […]

For Linda Foster I Because we used to have leaves And on damp days Our muscles feel a tug, Painful […]