Second Language - Couverture souple

Mueller, Lisel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807113379 ISBN 13 : 9780807113370

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Second Language 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 Second Language come together lucidly and effectively.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Winner of the 2002 Ruth Lilly Prize given by Poetry magazine and a founding member of the Poetry Center of Chicago, Lisel Mueller was the author of seven volumes of poems: Alive Together, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; The Need to Hold Still, awarded the 1981 National Book Award for Poetry; Waving from Shore, recipient of a 1990 Carl Sandburg Award; The Private Life, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and three other volumes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807113379
• ISBN 13: 9780807113370
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
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