Claudia Emerson

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Claudia Emerson


Born
in Chatham, Virginia, The United States
January 13, 1957

Died
December 04, 2014

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Born and raised in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson studied writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her poetry, steeped in the Southern Narrative tradition, bears the influences of Ellen Bryant Voigt, Betty Adcock, and William Faulkner. Of the collection Late Wife (2005), poet Deborah Pope observed, “Like the estranged lover in one of her poems who pitches horseshoes in the dark with preternatural precision, so Emerson sends her words into a different kind of darkness with steely exactness, their arc of perception over and over striking true.”

Emerson’s volumes of poetry include Pharaoh, Pharaoh (1997); Pinion: An Elegy (2002); Late Wife (2005), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Figure Studies (2008); and Secure the Shadow (20
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Late Wife

4.16 avg rating — 1,200 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions
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Figure Studies: Poems

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Impossible Bottle: Poems

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Pinion: An Elegy

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Secure the Shadow: Poems

4.54 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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The Opposite House: Poems

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Pharaoh, Pharaoh: Poems

4.44 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Claude before Time and Spac...

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The React Handbook

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