Late Wife Poems by Claudia Emerson SIGNED First 1st Edition Hardcover Book 2005

Title: Late Wife: Poems

Author: Claudia Emerson

Series: Southern Messenger Poets

ISBN-13: 9780807130834

Year: 2005

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press

Format: Hardcover / Hardback

Vintage: Yes

Collectible: Signed and Personalized by Pulitzer Prize Winning (Late Wife) Poet Claudia Emerson. First Edition, 3rd Printing

Condition: Signed and Personalized by Pulitzer Prize Winning (Late Wife) Poet Claudia Emerson. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Book is in very good to excellent shape with light wear to cover. No markings. NOT ex library or remaindered. DJ in very good shape with light wear. Protected in removable mylar cover.  SHIPS IN A BOX! Packaged with care.

Genre: Poetry; Collection of Poems About Divorce; Poetry Books For Women

Book Summary: 

Winner of the 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 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.