Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1924. She had a career both writing poetry and translating. She attended the University of Evansville and performed her graduate study at Indiana University. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Elmhurst College, and Goddard College. She also worked at as a social worker, receptionist, and library assistant. She died in early 2020.
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When I Am Asked
When I am asked
how I began writing poems,
I talk about the indifference of nature.
It was soon after my mother died,
a brilliant June day,
everything blooming.
I sat on a gray stone bench
in a lovingly planted garden,
but the day lilies were as deaf
as...