Emerson’s Study
Photographs by Lauren Miner
Lauren Miner, a former student of Claudia Emerson in Virginia Commonwealth University’s MFA program, photographed Emerson’s study on April 18, 2016, about sixteen months after the poet’s death.
Of the documentary effort, Lauen Miner writes:
These photographs in Claudia's study were taken early in the morning. When Kent [Ippolito] asked me to come take these photographs, he insisted that I should come early, because of the light, and because Claudia loved to be in that space early in the day, when the light was just so. The photographs don't really do it justice, or capture the full sense of being in that space as the day comes on and brightens, with the birds chirping as the light shifts from pink to orange to white.
The images below were selected by Blackbird from the larger collection of photographs and attempt to give the viewer a sense of the physical space and the room’s contents. The images start on the north side of the room and move generally clockwise around the room.
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Lauren Miner is an educator, writer, and visual artist. She holds an MFA in creative writing in poetry and an MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University.