Claude Before Time and Space: Poems

By Claudia Emerson

Book Overview

In Claude before Time and Space, her final collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Claudia Emerson quietly but fiercely explores the themes of mortality and time.

In the first section of this book, "The Wheel," Emerson uses a rural southern setting in poems that reflect on memory, the self, and relationships. In section two, "Bird Ephemera, " she explores historical figures--from an early naturalist and writer who raised her children in poverty to a small-town doctor. The collection concludes with a series of poems named after the poet's father. This illuminating body of work displays a master poet at the height of her craft.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080716786X
• ISBN13: 9780807167861
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 8.8"