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Early Elegy: Smallpox
Source: Poetry (June 2012).
Biography
Born and raised in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson studied writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Emerson’s poetry, steeped in the Southern Narrative tradition, bears the influences of Ellen Bryant Voigt, Betty Adcock, and William Faulkner. Of the collection Late Wife (2005), poet Deborah Pope observed, “Like the estranged lover in one of her poems who pitches horseshoes in the dark with preternatural . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Health & Illness
POET’S REGION U.S., Southern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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