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Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014.

Late wife : poems / Claudia Emerson.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2005.

viii, 54 pages ; 24 cm.

A collection of poems in which the poet reminisces about the life she led with her first husband, describes the healing she went through after her divorce, and expresses her feelings toward her second husband, whose former wife died of cancer.

[Southern messenger poets]

Southern messenger poets.

Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Series statement on jacket.

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2006

Aftermath -- Photograph : Farm Auction -- Rent -- Surface hunting -- Waxwing -- Chimney Fire -- Eight Ball -- Pitching Horseshoes -- The last Christmas -- Metaphor -- Possessions -- A Bird in the house -- The Spanish lover -- Frame -- My Grandmother's plot in the family cemetery -- The change -- Breaking Up the house -- House-sitting -- Second bearing, 1919 -- Drought -- The Audubon collection -- The practice cage -- Atlas -- Migraine : aura and aftermath -- Artifact -- The hospital -- Pond turtle -- Daybook -- The cough -- The X-rays -- Corrective -- Homecoming -- Driving glove -- Furnace -- Stringed instrument collection -- Old English -- Leave no trace -- Buying the painted turtle.

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