Second Language: Poems AUTH-3467492 the editor of Ireland's Welcome

the editor of Ireland's Welcome to the Stranger

1940-1942(edited)

After analyzing the tradition

-Dana Amir

and educated at the University of Washington

Second Language: Poems AUTH-3467492 the editor of Ireland's WelcomeSecond Language is the fourth volume of work from the highly acclaimed poet Lisel Mueller. The second language of the title, English, supplanted Mueller's native language when she came to the United States from Hitler's Germany at age fifteen. But other second languages are at work here as well. The poems in this collection have to do with memory and metaphor, two forces that enable us to interpret our experience. Each is in a sense a second language,