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Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press). She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Pinion: An Elegy and Pharoah, Pharoah. Her work has been published in many journals and magazines, including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Blackbird, Poetry, Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, Chattahoochee Review, Five Points, and Visions International. An associate professor of English at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Emerson has also been the recipient of Associated Writing Program’s Intro Award, the Academy of American Poets Prize, and the Mary Washington College Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award. Five Poems from Blackbird archive ----------------------------- Four Poems: Aftermath I think by now it is time for the second cutting. house we rented, has lain in convalescence above new grass, and the doe again can hide that field, weeks before the first pass of the blade, to my thighs, my skirt pulled up that high. I saw her in it. She reminded me of me — as she moved in and then away from the sharp I confess that last house was the coldest the walls, formless as your breath as it rose You see, aftermath is easier, opening spoken the second time — truer, perhaps, [from Late Wife (2005)]
The Spanish Lover There were warnings: he had, at forty, never had bled, even the walls, giving birth to him; I would eat an artichoke down to its heart, So it ended badly, but to some relief. I was drinking a chalk-white landscape, a distant [from Late Wife (2005)]
Homecoming The camera is trained on the door, no one to understand the one cough, nothing, the clearing [from Late Wife (2005)]
Bone [from Pinion: An Elegy (2002)]
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