Midwestern Miscellany LIII.1 (Spring 2025)

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 MuellerA Selection of Poems -- Lisel Mueller