Publisher's Synopsis
Midwestern Miscellany is a peer-reviewed academic journal published twice a year by The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. This issue, Volume LIII, No. 1 (Spring 2025), is guest edited by Linda Nemec Foster. Contributions in this issue focus on the poet Lisel Mueller. Contents:
- "What Is Midwestern about the Poetry of Lisel Mueller?" -- Janet Ruth Heller
- "An Alchemy of Words: Lisel Mueller's 'Monet Refuses the Operation'" -- Elizabeth Iannaci
- "Alive Together: Life and Language with Lisel Mueller" -- Anita Skeen
- "A Word about Lyric and Narrative Impulses in the Work of Lisel Mueller" -- Elaine Terranova
- "While 'Father Was Busy Eluding the Monsters'" -- Jenny Mueller
- A Selection of Poems -- Lisel Mueller
