In a 1989 interview with Stan Sanvel Rubin and William Heyen, Lisel Mueller stated: "Let me say what countless other displaced persons must have said: I am more at home here [in the United States] tha...
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In the following essay, Plumly offers a mixed assessment of The Private Life.
“Snow” is a good example of the private life of this, Lisel Mueller's second collection.
Teleph...
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In the following review, Allen contrasts Mueller'sThe Private Life with Robert Pack's collection, Keeping Watch.
[Lisel Mueller] is one of those poets who has a genius for finding sub...
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In the following review, Corey offers a laudatory assessment of Mueller's The Need to Hold Still.
In The Need to Hold Still Mueller perfects a voice that has learned to react personally to a...
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In the following interview, Mueller discusses her creative process, her background, and being a female poet in America.
Born in Hamburg, Germany, Lisel Mueller came to this country in 1939 and has ...
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In the following essay, Hentz traces the theme of silence in Mueller's poetry.
The dialectic suggested by such opposites as affirmation and negation, violence and forgiveness, darkness and l...
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In the following interview, Mueller discusses the Germanic nature of her verse, her thematic concerns, her impressions of American poetry, and the impact of teaching on her work.
Nancy Bunge: How h...
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In the following essay, Solyn analyzes Mueller's definition of Midwestern poetry.
Any discussion of Midwestern poetry begins as a task of definition. In part this is because there is no scho...
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In the following excerpt, Stitt provides a positive review of Mueller's Second Language.
Second Language is the fourth book of poems by Lisel Mueller, who was born in Germany in 1924 and cam...
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In the following excerpt, Fulton praises the sincerity and simplicity of Mueller's verse in Second Language.
Reading Lisel Mueller's fourth book, Second Language, is a bit like gazing...
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In the following excerpt, Kitchen applauds the sensibility and accessibility of Mueller's Waving From Shore.
… Lisel Mueller's fifth full-length collection, Waving from Shore, ...
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In the following review, Brumm offers a positive assessment of Waving From Shore, contending that Mueller has “succeeded in creating a complex and eloquent canvas.”
In her latest volu...
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In the following essay, Mueller discusses her identification with women poets and the American literary tradition.
I was born in Germany, the older of two daughters of emancipated, urban parents wh...
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In the following excerpt, Kitchen praises Mueller's Alive Together, maintaining that “over the years, she has held herself to a standard of clarity and truthfulness in language as well a...
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In the following essay, Townsend provides a laudatory review of Mueller's Alive Together.
I always approach “new and selected” collections of poetry with some trepidation, curi...
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Lisel Mueller
Critical Review by Stanley Plumly
