Amy Clampitt

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Amy Clampitt

Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920 – September 10, 1994) was an

American poet and author.[1]

Life

Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of

Audubon Society, and a freelance editor.[2]

Not until the mid-1960s, when Clampitt was in her forties, did she return to writing poetry. Her first poem was published by

College of William and Mary, Smith College, and Amherst College, but it was her time spent in Manhattan, in a remote part of Maine, and on various trips to Europe, the former Soviet Union, Iowa, Wales, and England that most directly influenced her work.[citation needed
]

Clampitt died of cancer in September 1994.

An Amy Clampitt Residency was established in Lenox, Massachusetts.[3][4]

Awards

Clampitt was the recipient of a 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship (1992), and she was a member of the

American Academy of Poets
.

Works

Poetry collections

  • Multitudes, Multitudes (Washington Street Press, 1973).
  • The Isthmus (1981).[5]
  • The Summer Solstice (Sarabande Press, 1983).
  • The Kingfisher (Knopf, 1983). .
  • What the Light Was Like (Knopf, 1983). .
  • Archaic Figure (Knopf, 1987). .
  • Westward (Knopf, 1990). .
  • Manhattan: An Elegy, and Other Poems (University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1990).
  • A Silence Opens (Knopf, 1994). .
  • .
  • " A Homage to John Keats" (The Sarabande Press, 1984)

Prose

Biography

References

  1. ^ Grimes, William (September 12, 1994). "Amy Clampitt, 74, Late Bloomer Who Rose to Heights of Poetry". The New York Times. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
  2. ^ "'Nowhere Wholly at Home'". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  3. ^ "Poet Begins Six-Month Amy Clampitt Residency". www.iberkshires.com. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  4. ^ "How One Poet's 'Genius Grant' Became A Gift To Future Generations". npr.org.
  5. ^ "Spiegelman". Amy Clampitt. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  6. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Forbes, Malcolm (February 24, 2023). "'Nothing Stays Put' Review: Amy Clampitt, Late Bloomer". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 6, 2023.

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