Alive Together - A reflection on the Life and Writing of Lisel Mueller who died two months ago at the age of 96.

“Speaking of marvels, I am alive

together with you, when I might have been

alive with anyone under the sun,”

Lisel Mueller died on the 21. Feb 2020, 13 days after her 96th birthday on the 8th Feb. Whilst technically we were alive together, I only discovered her and her poetry as a result of an obituary I came across in the Chicago Sun Times(please don’t as…