About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 9-30-05
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
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Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. viii, 54 pp.; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. "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 ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
Description: As New. Trade paperback. As New; slim softcover (54 pp. ); pictorial wraps, clean text block; Sticker on front cover reads Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Tells the story of love lost and redeemed in wonderfully eloquent free verse. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005-09-30
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
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Edition: Limited Signed Edition
Binding: Full-Leather
Publisher: Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, USA
Date Published: 2006
Description: As New; Signed by Author. 8vo A special Limited Edition, this copy is SIGNED by the Poet Claudia Emerson. A wonderful copy of this collectible book in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Award for Poetry, Late Wife by Claudia Emerson explores a woman's 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 ... read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
Description: Nr Fine. Trade Paperback 0807130842 Unmarked Light Shelfwear Pulitzer Prize Winner Medal on front cover. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780807130841ISBN:0807130842
Description: 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. Advertising. read more
"I am normally not a fan of poetry, however, I appreciated Claudia Emerson's poignant collection of poems contained in Late Wife. Divided into three sections, Emerson describes life with her then husband, their separation and her life with a new husband. Her new husband has been touched by death in the same way that Emerson feels a part of her died when she and her first husband divorced.
I was particularly fond of her poem describing a turtle in a pond."
"Read three times over during a break-up, which is why I don't think I can give this an unbiased review (in fresh loss is the best possible state for the ideal reader of this collection). But, the poems I found most arresting(most contained in a single section):
"The Last Christmas" "Metaphor" "Possessions" "A Bird in the House" "The Spanish Lover" "Frame" "Second Bearing, 1919""
"claudia emerson is a rock star, plain and simple. gave a reading at the brown hotel, and at the end, she and her husband (the one detailed in the book's third and final section) got up and performed one of the poems, in altered form, as a murder ballad. ("if i'da had a gun, i'da shot her down.") in other news, her reading of "stringed instrument collection" made me weep openly at louisville's fanciest hotel. that's gotta tell you something."
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