Claudia Emerson has published three books of poems: Pharaoh, Pharaoh (LSU, 1997); Pinion, An Elegy (LSU, 2002); and Late Wife (LSU, 2005), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She was the 2005 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress and is an associate professor at Mary Washington College.

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