The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
by Clampitt, Amy
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375400087
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400087
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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Synopsis
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
- Callaghan Books South (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51448
- Title
- The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
- Author
- Clampitt, Amy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375400087
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400087
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthology;
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