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Lisel Mueller blended themes of history and fate with reflections on nature, children’s fairy tales and folklore in poetry that won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. “She was one of ...

Lisel Mueller, who fled Hitler’s Germany as a teenager and became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet in the United States, drawing on her family history for lyrical works about love, art, nature and loss — ...

Lisel Mueller fled Germany at 15 and came to America, where she wrote in her poem "Curriculum Vitae": "In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually I caught up with them." She caught up and ...

Lisel Mueller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose elegant work drew on nature, her experiences as a parent, folklore and history, including her own flight from Nazi Germany as a teenager, died on Feb ...

The poet Lisel Mueller was born in Germany in 1924. Her family fled the Nazi regime to the U.S. when she was 15. It's hard to miss the fact that her poems are always in some way about how we can learn ...

Lisel Mueller’s childhood was beautiful and terrifying. She “waded through pine cones and primrose marshes” in the countryside outside Hamburg, Germany. She adored going to school, and her home life ...

Illinois poet Lisel Mueller is one of our country's finest writers, and the following lines, with their grace and humility, are representative of her poems of quiet celebration. that, by all rights, ...

* An obituary Thursday for Lisel Mueller included an incorrect birth year for the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. She was born in 1924. * A story Thursday about the Democratic presidential race included ...

Her themes included language, nature and history, including her own flight from Nazi Germany. By Neil Genzlinger Lisel Mueller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose elegant work drew on nature, her ...