Impossible Bottle: Poems

by Claudia Emerson

Book Overview

This posthumous volume of poetry from Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson explores the suspended state of existence that illness imposes upon its sufferers-what she calls the "impossible bottle." With a strong will and a self-deprecating awareness of the instinct to seek meaning in metaphor, she confronts the indignities, fears, and moments of grace in a struggle with cancer. Her poems forge unlikely connections between the present reality and memories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807160830
• ISBN13: 9780807160831
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"