Claudia Emerson published six poetry collections with LSU Press, including Late Wife, Figure Studies, and The Opposite House. A professor of English and member of the creative writing faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Emerson served as the poet laureate of Virginia and won numerous awards for teaching and writing -- including the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry -- before her death in 2014.
"Smart, intense, satisfying, and approachable." -- Newsweek"The
sustained quality of her accomplishment, poem by poem, is rare....
The voices... are authentic, their con- flicts and complexities
universal." -- Georgia Review"One of the most honored, decorated,
and revered poets inVirginia history." -- Richmond
Times-Dispatch"Emerson's poems... are characteristic of the poet at
her most human, by offering the subjective as human, its freakiness
intact, and by making us believe that this offer- ing is the most
poetic of documentary rituals." -- Cortland Review
" Smart, intense, satisfying, and approachable. Newsweek The
sustained quality of her accomplishment, poem by poem, is rare. . .
. The voices . . . are authentic, their con- flicts and
complexities universal. Georgia Review One of the most honored,
decorated, and revered poets in Virginia history. Richmond
Times-Dispatch Emerson s poems . . . are characteristic of the poet
at her most human, by offering the subjective as human, its
freakiness intact, and by making us believe that this offer- ing is
the most poetic of documentary rituals. Cortland Review"
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