{"product_id":"late-wife-poems-9780807130841","title":"Late Wife: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLate Wife, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most personal of Claudia Emerson's poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eLate Wife \u003c\/i\u003eis both an elegy and a celebration of a rich present informed by a complex past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Emerson is the author of the poetry books \u003ci\u003ePharaoh, Pharaoh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePinion: An Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFigure Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSecure the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, all published in Dave Smith's Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50675052642578,"sku":"9780807130841","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e66eba20-cdb5-439d-8736-de0724b09eba.jpg?v=1733870603","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/late-wife-poems-9780807130841","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}