PULITZER POET April 14, 1997 TRANSCRIPT Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with this year s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poet is Lisel Mueller, who won the prize for Alive Together, a collection representing 35 years of her work. JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, a conversation with this year s winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and to Elizabeth Farnsworth. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The poet ...

Lisel Mueller I was born in a major European city and lived there until the age of 15, when I came to this country. Though my family landed in the Midwest, we lived in urban or suburban environments. It was only after my husband and I built our house in Lake County, Illinois, near Libertyville, that my consciousness changed. On the first morning in our new home I woke up to the mooing of cows.