Late Wife

Claudia Emerson · 2005 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Three sequences follow a woman through the end of one marriage, the first months of another, and her attempt to know her new husband's first wife, who died young. Letters, objects left in a house and a second wedding hold the narrative. A collection with a quiet arc across its three parts.

Open Late Wife in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Beauty of the Husband
  Anne Carson · 2001 CE · Poem

  71% · 13 shared
  PoemPsychologicalRomanceLoveMemory & TimeForgivenessIdentity & SelfContemporaryLoverNonlinear / Fracturedvs SelfLyricalModern / American
• The Optimist's Daughter
  Eudora Welty · 1972 CE · Novel

  68% · 13 shared
  PsychologicalDeath & MortalityMemory & TimeForgivenessContemporaryNonlinear / FracturedThe HouseThe Lettervs SelfLyricalElegiacRealistModern / American
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry · 2004 CE · Film

  68% · 12 shared
  PsychologicalRomanceLoveMemory & TimeIdentity & SelfContemporaryLoverNonlinear / FracturedThe Housevs SelfElegiacModern / American
• Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater · 2004 CE · Film

  65% · 12 shared
  PsychologicalRomanceLoveMemory & TimeIdentity & SelfContemporaryLovervs SelfLyricalElegiacRealistModern / American
• Three Junes
  Julia Glass · 2002 CE · Novel

  65% · 12 shared
  PsychologicalRomanceLoveDeath & MortalityMemory & TimeContemporaryNonlinear / FracturedThe Housevs SelfElegiacRealistModern / American
• Different Hours
  Stephen Dunn · 2000 CE · Poem

  65% · 12 shared
  PoemPsychologicalLoveDeath & MortalityMemory & TimeIdentity & SelfContemporaryThe Housevs SelfLyricalRealistModern / American