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    Blood Oranges

    Lisel Mueller 1986

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    “Blood Oranges” appears from Second Language, Lisel Mueller’s 4th book center poetry. Story this verse, one sees subjects dump have attentive Mueller everywhere in her job, most markedly the Destruction in Hitler’s Germany ahead her sorcery with poetry’s way noise capturing interpretation physical globe so concretely that reality’s horrors cannot be ignored.

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    Inspired by Pulitzer Poet Lisel Mueller's poem below, I wrote my own version of a minuscule memoir.

    1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of course I do not remember this. 3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The world I lived in had a soft voice and no claws. 4) A cornucopia filled with treats took me into a building with bells. A wide-bosomed teacher took me in. 5) At home the bookshelves connected heaven and earth. 6) On Sundays the city child waded through pinecones and primrose marshes, a short train ride away. 7) My country was struck by history more deadly than earthquakes or hurricanes. 8) My father was busy eluding the monsters. My mother told me the walls had ears. I learned the burden of secrets. 9) I moved into the too bright days, the too dark nights of adolescence. 10) Two parents, two daughters, we followed the sun and the moon across the ocean. My grandparents stayed behind in darkness. 11) In the new language everyone spoke too fast. Eventually I caught up with them. 12) When I met you, the new language became the language of love. 13) The death of the mother hurt the daughter into poetry. The daughter became a mother of daughters

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    5 famous German poets you should know

    Poetry has been practised for centuries, with some even believing the art form predates literacy itself. This year, to mark World Poetry Day, we celebrate the best of German poetry - from revered classics to modern-day geniuses. Add these names to your reading list! 

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Goethe, the king of German poetry, was born in Frankfurt in 1749 and was a multi-talented poet, playwright, novelist, scientist and even acted as a diplomat. His work is regarded as among some of the greatest poetry in the world and is still hugely influential to this day. 

    Much of Goethe’s work was carried further thanks to several German classical composers, who set the pieces to music, such as Beethoven and Wagner. Goethe's works saw success within his lifetime, granting the literary heavyweight stardom among the aristocracy of Germany and beyond.

    Friedrich Schiller

    If Goethe is the king of German poetry, then Schiller is at least the prince. Schiller was born just 10 years after Goethe, not far away in Marbach am Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, but didn’t live nearly as long as his friend and colleague Johann. The pair worked together and built a complex friendship, with their literary contributio