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Mueller, Lisel, author.

The need to hold still : poems / by Lisel Mueller.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

63 pages ; 24 cm

Lisel Mueller is the author of seven books of poetry, including Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has also received the Lamont Poetry Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Prize. She lives in Lake County, Illinois.

American poetry.

Poetry.

For a Thirteenth Birthday -- Another Version -- The Middle Distance -- Drawings by Children -- Fiction -- Sometimes, When the Light -- Poppy -- Postcards from All Over -- Talking to Helen -- Daughter -- This Sadness, This Happiness -- Beginning with 1914 -- Merce Cunningham and the Birds -- Not Only the Eskimos -- Eggs -- Found in the Cabbage Patch -- One More Hymn to the Sun -- The Cook -- Picking Raspberries -- Signs -- Night Song -- The Need To Hold Still -- Voices from the Forest -- The Triumph of Life : Mary Shelley -- Children's Corner -- The Story -- Testimony -- The Escape -- Seeing Them on Television -- The Artist's Model, ca. 1912 -- The End of Science Fiction -- What Will You Do -- Why We Tell Stories.

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