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PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231132867

ISBN-139780231132862

eBay Product ID (ePID)44668564

Product Key Features

Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameLove, Amy : the Selected Letters of Amy Clampitt

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

SubjectLiterary, American / General, Poetry

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAmy Clampitt

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight20.6 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-065669

Reviews"In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters, Love, Amy enables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure." -- Merle Rubin, The Los Angeles Times, This collection shows how she applied in life the moral inquisitiveness and artistic rigour that makes her poetry so remarkable., "Women can do anything. Or, at least, some women's life stories encourage us to believe... Clampitt's is one of them." -- Megan Marshall, Boston Sunday Globe, "From the first page of Love, Amy, an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections." -- Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review, In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters, Love, Amy enables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure., Vibrant, attractive, life affirming letters... In this slim collection of letters, is a wonderful sense of the delightful woman., "Spiegelman's impeccable and (as only the best are) subtle editorial decisions make this volume a rare pleasure." -- Anthony Cuda, New Criterion, The smooth, lucid prose of her letters always reminds us that the verbal athlecticism of her verse... is the work of a highly conscious, purposeful artisan., "This collection shows how she applied in life the moral inquisitiveness and artistic rigour that makes her poetry so remarkable." -- London Review of Books, "Vibrant, attractive, life affirming letters... In this slim collection of letters, is a wonderful sense of the delightful woman." -- Martin Rubin, Sunday Times, Clampitt's letters, which reveal her sense of literary vocation... are infused with the kind of imagination filled her poetry., This book is a welcome reminder of the unique intimacy afforded by reading another person's letters., Women can do anything. Or, at least, some women's life stories encourage us to believe... Clampitt's is one of them., From the first page of Love, Amy , an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections., [Readers] get to see Clampitt's life... The view is as surprising as her writing style, which is clear, vivid and engaging., "Here is what e-mail has no patience for: grace, wit, wonder, embellishment, asides, details and real vocabulary." -- Isabel Nathaniel, Dallas Morning News, "Clampitt's letters, which reveal her sense of literary vocation... are infused with the kind of imagination filled her poetry." -- American Literature, "This book is a welcome reminder of the unique intimacy afforded by reading another person's letters." -- Ben Downing, The Wall Street Journal, "In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters, Love, Amyenables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure." -- Merle Rubin, The Los Angeles Times, "What a fine book Willard Spiegelman has given readers, a book that will make people read Amy Clampitt's poetry and appreciate the poetry of her life." -- Sam Pickering, Kenyon Review, "Clampitt's letters... Offer an expansive view - of her generous spirit, her exceptional mind." -- Michelle Gillett, The Berkshire Eagle, "The smooth, lucid prose of her letters always reminds us that the verbal athlecticism of her verse... is the work of a highly conscious, purposeful artisan." -- Anthony Cuda, The New Criterion, What a fine book Willard Spiegelman has given readers, a book that will make people read Amy Clampitt's poetry and appreciate the poetry of her life., Spiegelman's impeccable and (as only the best are) subtle editorial decisions make this volume a rare pleasure., Here is what e-mail has no patience for: grace, wit, wonder, embellishment, asides, details and real vocabulary., "He has performed an important service by assembling this selection." -- Karl Kirchwey, Philadelphia Inquirer, "From the first page of Love, Amy , an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections." -- Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review, "[Readers] get to see Clampitt's life... The view is as surprising as her writing style, which is clear, vivid and engaging. " -- Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal811/.54

SynopsisThis 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-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. Written in clear, limpid prose, Clampitt's letters illuminate the habits of imagination she would later use to such effect in her poetry. She offers, with wit and intelligence, an intimate and personal portrait of life as an independent woman recently arrived in New York City. She recounts her struggle to find a place for herself in the world of literature as well as the excitement of living in Manhattan. In other letters she describes a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment) and her work as a political activist. Clampitt also reveals her passionate interest in and fascination with the world around her. She conveys her delight in a variety of day-to-day experiences and sights, reporting on trips to Europe, the books she has read, and her walks in nature. After struggling as a novelist, Clampitt turned to poetry in her fifties and was eventually published in the New Yorker . In the last decade of her life she appeared like a meteor on the national literary scene, lionized and honored. In letters to Helen Vendler, Mary Jo Salter, and others, she discusses her poetry as well as her surprise at her newfound success and the long overdue satisfaction she obviously felt, along with gratitude, for her recognition., 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. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing efforts to find a place for herself in the world of literature, 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. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing efforts to find a place for herself in the world of literature

LC Classification NumberPS3553.L23Z48 2005