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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.
Southern Messenger Poets Series
Louisiana State University Press
October 2005
54 pages
ISBN: 0807130842
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Fiction 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 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 the speaker's rebeginning in this
relationship has come about in part because of two couples'
respective losses.
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