The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

by Amy Clampitt

Book Overview

Now, for the first time, Clammpitt's five poetry collections are brought together in a single volume, allowing us to experience anew the distinctiveness of her 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. - With a foreword by Mary Jo Salter

The Collected Poems offers us a chance to consider freshly the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375700641
• ISBN13: 9780375700644
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Favorite Poet

The ideas within completely altered how I see the world. In my opinion some of the best writing ever put to paper.

A Great and Idiosyncratic Poet

Amy Clampitt was an American original. Both her life and her poetry demand serious attention. Having all of her five volumes in one big, beautiful book means that a reader can take the measure of (and derive pleasure from) the woman who was America's oldest "young" poet, who did not publish her first book until she was 63. Now that her letters have also been published, we can get a sense of the woman behind the pen. Both the letters and, even more fully, the poems, attest to the deep humanity of a wonderful writer.

Swoonworthy

Amy Clampitt sure-handedly set the gold standard for poetry in the waning decades of the twentieth century. Her work is a universe of grace. I've got three copies of this one--one for the bedside table, one for sneaking reacquaintance in the lower-left drawer of my office desk, and another for the slow-crawling intervals of the commute. When it comes to poetry, there haven't exactly been too many essential collections of late. But this is one.

What the Light Was Like: Remembering Amy Clampitt's mind

Now here in one gorgeous volume is 496 pages of proof that this original and curious intellect once lived among us, and, having looked (and looked) at our time and many places, left us these hard-headed, light-filled poems.