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	Amy Clampitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994) was an American poet and author.
		Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa.
		Clampitt was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and she was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Poets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amy_Clampitt (252 words)

	Lines from a poet - The Boston Globe
		Clampitt died of ovarian cancer in 1994 at 74, an acknowledged master of her craft, remarkable for her rich language and yen for the universal at a time when intimate minimalism dominated the poetry scene.
		Clampitt's letters are filled with what she called ''my own perpetual anxieties and unrequited yearnings," and not all of these were literary.
		Clampitt's career is a late-life version of the tragic early flowering of the English poet she most admired -- John Keats, whose creative outpouring was cut short by his death at 26.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2005/09/11/lines_from_a_poet (1121 words)

	Papers on Language and Literature: "Nobody Knows the Story": Amy Clampitt's Poems of Childhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Clampitt herself said that she did not usually care for "openly confessional poetry" (Fairchild 17), and her reference to memory on one occasion as "that exquisite blunderer" (25) is cautionary.
		Amy's own father was also a farmer, and her family lived with the grandparents in the old homestead until, when Amy was nine, she and her family moved to a nearby farm.
		Her paternal grandfather, Frank T. Clampitt, she says, was "the great solace" of her childhood life, partly because she could read so many books at his house; "he had a feeling for words and a sense of the past, a sense of being involved in something larger than his own immediate concerns" (Hosmer 81).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3708/is_200410/ai_n9470582 (1431 words)

	UIowa - Papers of Amy Clampitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Amy Clampitt was born in New Providence, Iowa, in 1924.
		Clampitt worked for Oxford University Press as a secretary and writer, from 1943 to 1951 and as a reference librarian at the National Audubon society from 1952 to 1959.
		Clampitt's first small collection of poetry was published in 1974, after which her work began to appear regularly in the New Yorker.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC600/MsC582/clampitt.html (333 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Clampitt, Amy
		Amy Clampitt, a descendent of pioneers, was born on June 15, 1920 in the small farming community of New Providence, Iowa (pop.
		Clampitt may have been inspired to read and write by the example of her paternal grandfather who wrote a privately-printed memoir about his life on the prairie.
		Clampitt, who both described herself as a “poet of place” and one of “displacement” felt uprooted by her family's move.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=890 (1009 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Famous Iowans
		Clampitt grew up on a farm at New Providence and felt she was a misfit as a girl living in a Quaker environment during the Depression.
		Clampitt also worked as a librarian for the Audubon Society in the 1950s, and her poetry reflected her deep love for both nature and urban life.
		Clampitt, a longtime resident of New York, died of cancer at her home in Lenox, Mass.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/clampitt.html (292 words)

	Poetry Porch 3, Poetics: Memoir by Katherine Jackson
		If, in revisiting our evenings with Amy, I find a thread, a continuity, it is in her openness, and her encouraging us to be open, rather than defensive, in response to much of what seems to imperil poetry in late twentieth century America.
		Amy’s openness to the ambient sounds and language of our time continually revitalizes her own art, which all the while sounds the deep notes of its abiding loyalties: to Marianne Moore, Keats, the Metaphysical Poets, et al.
		Amy effected another memorable encounter with artistic Otherness, if not with silence, when she invited the painters to show us slides of their work at a pot luck supper in the Field House.
	www.poetryporch.com /kjmemoir.html (2927 words)

	Books of the poet: Amy Clampitt - book works writings work
		Amy Clampitt came late to being recognized as a poet but she always had the integrity of an artist.
		But instead of finding misery and disillusionment, Amy Clampitt found a rich life of the mind, new discoveries to make about the city and its inhabitants, and, at last, the genre she wrote best in and loved--poetry.
		She was given to finding happiness in her relationships and her work, and when acclaim and the acquaintance of the literary world came to her at the age of 63, she was both too old and too sensible to be anything but observant, grateful, and thrilled.
	www.poemhunter.com /amy-clampitt/books/poet-11961 (678 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Collected Poems
		Clampitt, a major voice in contemporary American poetry, occupies an increasingly secure place in the canon; she might best be described as a late romantic who is thoroughly engaged with her own historical circumstances.
		Clampitt taxes her readers with difficult syntax, a large lexicon and an extraordinary range of reference.
		Clampitt delights in evoking her encounters with the world of writing and literature, as well as other authors; she loves the unlikely association, linkage or juxtaposition her imagination uncovers as she immerses herself in reading and re-reading.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5842 (662 words)

	Love, Amy; The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt; Edited by Willard Spiegelman
		It is impossible to predict where her attention will alight next—a chickadee, the Unicorn tapestry, the workings of grace, a bowl of raspberries, the economy of love and solitude, a Bach fugue—each and everything described with a passionate curiosity, a palpable sympathy, and a shining moral poise.
		Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher.
		Clampitt also reveals her passionate interest in and fascination with the world around her.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231132867.HTM (832 words)

	Amy Clampitt -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The overwhelming success that Amy Tan achieved with her first novel, ‘The Joy Luck Club' (1989), resulted in part from the vividness of her recollections of growing up as a Chinese American.
		Percival and Abbott's sister, Amy, was born Feb. 9, 1874, in Brookline, Mass.
		The brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell, Percival was born on March 13, 1855, in Boston.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9104186?tocId=9104186 (572 words)

	Berkshires Week
		Because I was at the Mount last Friday to hear him read at the first event in the Amy Clampitt Poetry Series.
		Edith Wharton's stable was the venue for the readings, which included examples of the work of poet Amy Clampitt, who lived and wrote in the Berkshires at the end of her life.
		Clampitt’s late husband Harold Korn established a fund with the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and that fund is now financing the series of readings.
	www.berkshiresweek.com /082604 (214 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		"Amy Clampitt, a major American poet, was a marvelous letter-writer.
		Amy Clampitt lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success at the age of sixty-three with the publication of The Kingfisher (1983).
		Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0231132867 (289 words)

	Anteroom: Clampitt's Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A book compiling poet Amy Clampitt's letters has been published by Columbia University Press and is reviewed by Elizabeth Lund at the Christian Science Monitor.
		According to Lund, this enigma of a woman failed as a novelist during most of her years only to publish her first full-length book of poetry at the age of 63 to critical acclaim.
		In fact, even in her letters it is sometimes difficult to decide who she is, or where her focus lies.
	www.mitchmajor.com /2005/08/clampitts-letters.html (157 words)

	Coda February/March 1985
		After years of neglect, poet Amy Clampitt, who is in her sixties, has recently been getting more attention than most poets do in a lifetime.
		Amy Clampitt wrote poetry in high school, but then stopped and switched to fiction.
		Still, Clampitt says, "I don't know how there could be any bias against older writers." She doesn't know how an editor would know the age of a writer.
	www.pw.org /mag/articles/a8502-1.htm (2868 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Clampitt's ear is nearly unparalleled in 20th-century poets, and her delight in specificity richly rewards readers' attention.
		The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt brings together a lifetime of good work, and is one to treasure.
		Amy Clampitt sure-handedly set the gold standard for poetry in the waning decades of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375700641 (429 words)

	The New Leader: Amy Clampitt's pilgrimage.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The New Leader: Amy Clampitt's pilgrimage.@ HighBeam Research
		Amy Clampitt seizes upon whatever in her path.
		No living poet writes with fiercer energy, or is able to transform the diversity of life into such a variegated unity.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:8496894&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (196 words)

	Is Amy Clampitt Accessible? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With her highly stylized diction and complex conceits, Clampitt's poetry mixes high art and agriculture.
		In another passage, Clampitt describes her father-farmer's inability to transplant this new and lovely species into his garden (something that any skilled farmer should be able to do in theory, but is entirely dependant on the surrounding environment).
		Clampitt writes that her father "mentioned in a letter the disappointment of hoping it (the flower) might transplant-/ an episode which brings me near tears,/ and even as his dying does not." Ironically, I felt the same way as Clampitt.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/modern_poetry/75397 (396 words)

	Politics, purses, poetry: the letters of a poet \| csmonitor.com
		In the opening letter, dated 1950, a young Clampitt sounds both progressive and charmingly naive as she thanks an English friend for a new purse.
		Korn and Clampitt, neither of whom were fans of marriage, wed three months before her death.
		"Love, Amy" does little to illumine the poems, but it does offer insight into the life of a writer who had to claim her voice twice, so to speak.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0823/p13s01-bogn.htm (673 words)

	AllRefer.com - Amy Clampitt (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > American Literature, Biographies > Amy Clampitt
		A librarian and editor, she wrote little until the 1960s.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Amy Clampitt
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Clampitt.html (197 words)

	Amy Clampitt- Style over substance!
		Clampitt's poems, the best ones, are long, as painful ruminations have to be.
		Her curiosity and lovingly precise attention to the world, both natural and man-made, have their logical extension in her knowledge and choice of words….{Her} use of words, while dazzling, even overrich for some palates, is not done out of sheer ostentation.
		Clampitt, whose poems only began to appear five years ago, is in her early fifties.
	www.cosmoetica.com /TOP26-DES24.htm (1083 words)

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	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Amy Clampitt
		"Clampitt and Rich as Public Historians in the 1990s," paper given by Prof.
		"In the Subtropics wiht Amy Clampitt," a memoir by Katherine Jackson
		Excerpted from The Collected Poems by Amy Clampitt.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/clampitt/poem.html (177 words)

	Amy Clampitt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Amy Clampitt -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		She was born in (Click link for more info and facts about New Providence, Iowa) New Providence, Iowa.
		She attended college at (Click link for more info and facts about Grinnell College) Grinnell College and briefly enrolled at (A university in New York City) Columbia University before taking a job at the (Click link for more info and facts about Oxford University Press) Oxford University Press.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/amy_clampitt.htm (146 words)

	American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel, ISBN 1565845455 And The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt by Amy ...
		When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant.
		Now, for the first time, the five collections are brought together in a single volume, allowing us to experience anew the distinctiveness of Amy Clampitt's voice: the brilliant language--an appealing mix of formal and everyday expression--that poured out with such passion and was shaped in rhythms and patterns entirely her own.
		She, like her pioneer ancestors, moved frequently, but she wrote with lasting and deep feeling about all sorts of landscapes--the prairies of her Iowa childhood, the fog-wrapped coast of Maine, and places she visited in Europe, from the western isles of Scotland to Italy's lush countryside.
	www.gurukuleducation.com /dreams.htm (350 words)

	Former United State Poet Laureate Rita Dove to read at The Mount - iBerkshires.com - Home
		This series is named in honor of the poet Amy Clampitt, who wrote prolifically from her Stockbridge, Mass.
		The series is underwritten by the Amy Clampitt Fund, established in 2001 by Clampitt?s late husband Harold Korn to benefit poetry and the literary arts, and is managed by Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
		The Amy Clampitt Poetry Series will be held at 4 pm at The Mount on August 5.
	www.northadams.com /story.php?story_id=17798 (459 words)

	Poet: Amy Clampitt - All poems of Amy Clampitt
		Poet: Amy Clampitt - All poems of Amy Clampitt
		Free Poetry E-Book: 15 poems of Amy Clampitt
		THE COLLECTED POEMS OF AMY CLAMPITT Foreword by Mary Jo Salter.
	www.poemhunter.com /amy-clampitt/poet-11961 (290 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Briefly Noted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		What makes them extraordinary is something else: the naturalness of the voice, a vocabulary and a tone so “spoken” that the minute you finish a poem you want to read it again, just to see how he did it.
		Composed over a forty-four year period, Clampitt’s letters are written in a markedly different voice from that of her intricate, highly learned poems.
		Clampitt achieved recognition for her writing late in life, and it is fascinating to learn of the many things she was doing before then, such as getting jailed for participating in political protests.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/briefly/articles/050829crbn_brieflynoted (543 words)

	Susan M. Tiberghien - A Baroque Sunset, In Memory of Amy Clampitt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A Baroque Sunset, In Memory of Amy Clampitt
		"Amy was teaching her first poetry workshop and longed for distraction from her jittery nerves.
		A Baroque Sunset was written for International PEN in memory of Amy Clampitt.
	www.susantiberghien.com /work4.htm (190 words)

	Boston University World of Ideas with Ted O'Brien: Sunday, October 30, 2005
		Delivered by Professor Willard Spiegelman of the Department of English at Southern Methodist University, the lecture is titled, "A Poet's Life in Letters: The Case of Amy Clampitt." Professor Spiegelman knew Clampitt personally when she was alive.
		Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 and her first poem was published by The New Yorker in 1978.
		In 1983, at the age of sixty-three, she published her first full-length collection, "The Kingfisher." The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy Fellowship, she was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1992.
	www.buworldofideas.org /shows/2005/10/20051030.asp (144 words)

	Arts - Literature - Authors - C - Clampitt, Amy - Newsletter - News - Reviews - Education - Ratings
		Amy Clampitt - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
		Amy Clampitt Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com Clampitt was the first born of five children.
		The Academy of American Poets Amy Clampitt She wrote poetry in high school, but then ceased and focused her energies on writing fiction instead.
	www.newsletter-library.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/C/Clampitt,_Amy (189 words)

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