"Curriculum Vitae 1992 2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. ... 5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. 6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones and primrose marshes... 7) My country was struck by history more deadly than earthquakes and hurricanes. 8) My father was... eluding monsters. My mother told me walls had ears. ... 10) Two parents, two daughters, we followed the sun and the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed behind in the darkness. ... 13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry. ... 14) Ordinary life. Knots tying threads... The past pushed away, the future left unimagined for the... glorious, difficult, passionate present. ... 17) And then my father too disappeared. 18) I tried to go home... at the door to my childhood, but it was closed... 19) One day... everyone's face was younger than mine. 20)...The brilliant days and nights are breathless in their hurry. We follow..."
Lisel Mueller

January 1, 1970

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