{"product_id":"alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807121283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\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\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/28\/1996 pg. 77\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1996 pg. 400\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lisel Mueller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644054171804,"sku":"9780807121283","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ad2ecab8-3724-4a57-8f05-5ac51c981e99.jpg?v=1603857817","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alive-together-new-and-selected-poems-9780807121283","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}