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Emerson, Claudia, 1957-2014.

Secure the shadow : poems / Claudia Emerson.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

70 pages ; 24 cm.

Daringly realistic and artfully mediated by past and present, Claudia Emerson's Secure the Shadow contains historical pieces as well as poems centering on the deaths of the poet's brother and father. Emerson covers all aspects of the tragedies that, as Keats believed, contribute to our human collective of Soul-making, in which each death accrues into an immortal web of ongoing love and meaning for the living. Emerson's unwavering gaze shows that loss cannot be eluded, but can be embraced in elegies as devastating as they are beautiful.

Southern messenger poets

Southern messenger poets.

Death -- Poetry.

American poetry -- 21st century.

Poetry.

Machine geerated contents note: I. Late April House Fire along Interstate 81 -- Half-Life: Pittsylvania County, Virginia -- Student Conference -- Elegy in July for the Motel Astra -- It -- Secure the Shadow -- After Hours: A Glimpse of the Radiologist -- II. Animal Funerals, 1964 -- First Death -- Zenith -- Vacancy -- Old Elementary -- Cold Room -- Ground Truth -- Namesake -- Variations from the Porch -- III. Calf Killings -- Catfish -- Documentary -- IV. The Porch -- Dial Variations -- The Present Tense -- I -- Refusal -- Then -- The Hearing -- Cause -- V. Mortmain -- Jubilation -- Arterial -- For Once -- Lifeguard.

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