This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. 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 Ma[...]
When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent memory. "A dance of language," said May Swenson. "A genius for places," wrote J. D. McClatchy, and th[...]
Amy Clampitt är en naturdiktare fångade av kulturen, en epiker och elegiker, en resonör och moralist. Som sådan närmar hon sig såväl sitt eget Amerika som Europa, såväl historien som nuet. Framför allt är hon en stark och personlig röst med en stundtals barockartad ordrikedom. Debuten me[...]