Description
The most personal of Claudia Emerson's poetry collections, Late Wife is both an elegy and a celebration of a rich present informed by a complex past.
About the Author
Claudia Emerson is the author of the poetry books Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Pinion: An Elegy, Figure Studies, and Secure the Shadow, all published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review, and other journals. The recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she holds the Arlington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Reviews
"Late Wife tells the story of love lost and redeemed. In Emerson's hands, heartbreak and healing turn as tangible as the material world she observes with such love and such precision." - Mark Jarman"
Book Information
ISBN 9780807130841
Author Claudia Emerson
Format Paperback
Page Count 64
Imprint Louisiana State University Press
Publisher Louisiana State University Press
Weight(grams) 333g