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Love, Amy: the selected letters of Amy Clampitt

By Willard , Clampitt , Amy;Spiegelman

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780231507837, 0231132867, 0231507836
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3234522 bytes)
Pages
(xxiv, 304 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American -- 20th century -- Correspondence;POETRYAmerican--20th century;PoetsAmerican;Biography;Personal correspondence;ElectroAmyAmy -- Correspondence;PoetsBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary;LITERARY CRITI

Description

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 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. 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-religiou. Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Poet's Life in Letters -- Acknowledgments -- The Letters of Amy Clampitt -- Index.

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