Knopf, 1993. From the private library of Christopher Benfey, a specialist of 19th and 20th century American literature. A literal notebook from Benfey, page by page and poem by poem. Annotations, marginalia, lining Ñ mostly all in pencil. Plus end papers profuse with notes and references back into the book. Otherwise very close to fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. A book and research to spend years with. Signed by Christopher Benfey in pencil on the opening flyleaf. New and bright all around, gift quality

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Amy Clampitt was born and brought up in New Providence, Iowa, graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. Her first full-length collection, The Kingfisher, published in 1983, was followed in 1985 by What the Light Was Like, in 1987 by Archaic Figure, and in 1990 by Westward. A Silence Opens, her last book, appeared in 1994. The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, she was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Writer in Residence at the College of William and Mary, Visiting Writer at Amherst College, and Grace Hazard Conkling Visiting Writer at Smith College. She died in September 1994.

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Bookseller: Longhouse, Publishers and Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 33817
Title: The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
Author: Clampitt, Amy
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Knopf, 1993

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