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Perhaps/
a woman I do not know/
is facing the day with the heavy heart/
that, by all rights, should have been mine.

-Lisel Mueller (1924-2020), "In November"
one of my favorite poems by Mueller, who, as a young teen, left Germany for the US in 1939.
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IN NOVEMBER Outside the house the wind is howling and the trees are creaking horribly. This is an old story with its old beginning, as I lay me down to sleep. But when I wake up, sunlight has taken over the room. You have already made the coffee and the radio brings us music from a confident age. In the paper bad news is set in distant places. Whatever was bound to happen in my story did not happen. But I know there are rules that cannot be broken. Perhaps a name was changed. A small mistake. Perhaps a woman I do not know is facing the day with the heavy heart that, by all rights, should have been mine.
November 27, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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In January, I'll be giving a talk based on the introduction to my new translation of Three Hundred Tang Poems at The Elling Eide Center in Sarasota, Florida.
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How Three Hundred Tang Poems defined "Chinese Poetry" across the World | Elling Eide Center
Wednesday 1/15/2025 1:00-2:30pm Ticket Price: $10
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November 19, 2024 at 6:07 PM