{"id":78,"date":"2006-04-18T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-04-18T14:14:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T18:14:46","slug":"claudia-wins-a-pulitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/books\/claudia-wins-a-pulitzer","title":{"rendered":"Claudia wins a Pulitzer!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN\/0807130842&amp;tag=webliminalbooksi&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/latewife.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=webliminalbooksi&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0807130842\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nOur good friend Claudia Emerson won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2006\/poetry\/\">2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry<\/a> for her book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Late Wife: Poem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>A quote from her in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/17\/AR2006041701774.html\">article in the Washington Post<\/a> accurately described the situation here among her friends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;We&#8217;re freaking out here,&#8221; said poetry winner Emerson, who teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. &#8220;It was a very big surprise.&#8221; The author of three books of poetry, Emerson said &#8220;Late Wife&#8221; is much more personal than her other work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The prize was announced yesterday. She and her husband Kent hosted an impromtu party at their hosue last night. They had to. The house would have been filled with well-wishers in any case. Her book is listed as #523 in books at Amazon.com today, it was at about 1500 yesterday, and somewhere around 500,000 the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Her books are wonderful, she writes and sings great songs, and it&#8217;s a singular pleasure to hear her read. Congratulations Claudia!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our good friend Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Late Wife: Poem.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A quote from her in an article in the Washington Post accurately described the situation here among her friends: &#8220;We&#8217;re freaking out here,&#8221; said poetry winner Emerson, who teaches at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}