The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt - Hardcover

Clampitt, Amy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400087 ISBN 13: 9780375400087

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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Compiles, for the first time in a single volume, the five books of poems published in the poet's lifetime, presenting the full range of her distinctively rhythmic poems about the natural world of her Iowa childhood and other subjects. printing.

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mpitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent memory. "A dance of language," said May Swenson. "A genius for places," wrote J. D. McClatchy, and the New York Times Book Review said, "With the publication of her brilliant first book, Clampitt immediately merits consideration as one of the most distinguished contemporary poets."

She went on to publish four more collections in the next eleven years, the last one, A Silence Opens, appearing in the year she died.
Now, for the first time, the five collections are brought together in a single volume, allowing us to experience anew the distinctiveness of Amy Clampitt's 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 he

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• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0375400087
• ISBN 13: 9780375400087
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 471