![]() ![]() She offers, with wit and intelligence, an intimate and personal portrait of life as an independent woman recently arrived in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitts letters illuminate the habits of imagination she would later use to such effect in her poetry. 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. 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. Book Synopsis This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative womans life from the 1950s onward. About the Book 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 at the age of 63 with the publication of her poems in The Kingfisher. ![]()
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