A Short Collection of Poetry

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While I was at the conference in New York, I bought a copy of Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (from the Southern Messenger Poets series, Louisiana State University Press, 2005). This book also won The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2006, though I was (ever shallow) first drawn to its appearance.

These four were my favorites from the collection:

"Pitching Horseshoes" (originally published in Blackbird, Spring 2003, Volume 2, Number 1)

"The Practice Cage"

"Driving Glove"

"Buying the Painted Turtle" (originally published in Shenandoah)