German poets of the 20th Century

PETER HUCHEL:
Peter Huchel was born in Lichterfelde, near Berlin, in 1903, and died at Staufen, in 1981. He began publishing poetry in 1924, but a first volume was only to appear, in Berlin, in 1948, to be followed by another in Karlsruhe a year later. Following his release from a Soviet war prison he returned to East Germany, where he served as editor of Sinn und Form, published by the East Berlin Academy of Arts. Thereafter, he lived under house arrest, unable to work or publish in his own country, until he was allowed to emigrate to the West in 1971.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/peter_huchel/biography

 List of his poems:
Eastern River
Answer
Meeting
Melpomene


 LISEL MUELLER

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Poet Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924. She and her family fled Nazi persecution, arriving in the US in 1939. Her serious writing of poetry began in 1953, after the death of her mother.

Over the years, Mueller published seven books of poetry, several volumes of translation and a book of essays. In 1981, she won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection The Need to Hold Still, and in 1997 she was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Alive Together, a collection representing 35 years of her work. Among her other awards are the Lamont Poetry Selection, the Carl Sandburg Award, the Illinois Poet Laureate Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She has taught writing at Goddard College and the University of Chicago.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lisel_mueller/biography

List of her poems:

	Bedtime Story
	Monet Refuses The Operation
	Moon Fishing
	Reading The Brothers Grimm To Jenny
	Curriculum Vitae
	Why We Tell Stories
	For A Thirteenth Birthday
	Things
	Night Song
	Alive Together
	Blood Oranges
	Immortality
	What The Dog Perhaps Hears
	Another Version
	A Day Like Any Other
	The Concert
	All Night
	Scenic Route
	Small Poem About The Hounds And The Hares
	Five For Country Music