Claudia Emerson Professions : Poet Born : January 13, 1957 Died : December 4, 2014 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Claudia Emerson Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet. Claudia Emerson distance achievement wise Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one. Claudia Emerson suicide mother book Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors