Late Wife

First paperback printing, also issued simultaneously in hardcover. A woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another in a series of epistolary poems. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize label on the front cover. ; Southern Messenger Poets Series; 54 pages

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In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. The poems highlight how rebeginning in this relationship has come about in part because of two couples' respective losses.

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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0807130842

ISBN-13: 9780807130841

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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