"Lisel Mueller's poems are deeply felt and give pleasure because of their truth conveyed in sensuous terms. I found myself earmarking numbers of poems because they were compelling, satisfying, each a thing in itself."--Richard Eberhart The forty-three poems in this award winning collection by Lisel Mueller are written with a sense of history, an awareness of the inescapable changes taking place in our century and the effect on how we see our lives. Each of the poems speaks from a separate moment of experience. Each of ...
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"Lisel Mueller's poems are deeply felt and give pleasure because of their truth conveyed in sensuous terms. I found myself earmarking numbers of poems because they were compelling, satisfying, each a thing in itself."--Richard Eberhart The forty-three poems in this award winning collection by Lisel Mueller are written with a sense of history, an awareness of the inescapable changes taking place in our century and the effect on how we see our lives. Each of the poems speaks from a separate moment of experience. Each of them in its own way, celebrates the autonomy of the self, the mysteries of intimacy, growth, and feeling, and the struggle against what one writer has called the "ongoing assault from without to be something palpable and identifiable."
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. The 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection with card attesting to this laid in. All in fine, clean, crisp and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Smart grey boards with very light bump to base of spine. VG unclipped d/j lightly worn to edges. 8vo. [8], 64pp.
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Good. Size: 5x0x9; 1981, Fourth Printing, stated. Softbound book. Book is in Good condition, with visible handling and shelfwear to wraps, toning to text block, and several chips/printing loss to spine. Binding is tight, interior is clean, text is free of markings.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0807101826. The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1975 with card laid in. First edition. Foxing on top edge, else very good in a very good dust jacket.
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Very Good. First edition. Printed wrappers. Foxing to the first few pages including the title page and to the last page, foxing to the edges, sunning to the spine, and light wear to the wrappers, a good or better copy. Poet's second book and The 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Topedge lightly foxed, near fine in a slightly spine-tanned very good dust jacket with light, uneven fading to the rear panel and modest edgewear. Lamont Poetry Selection announcement laid in. Poet's second book and The 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection.
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Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with one tiny nick. Poet's second book, winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize. Mueller would go on to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.
