Amy Clampitt

Poetry of Amy Clampitt.
Books are shown alphabetically. Time line is at the end.


Amy Clampitt featured in:
* 2008: 100 Essential Modern Poems By Women edited by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton. [Amy Clampitt has "dense, rich language and an intricate style".]
* 2005: 100 Great Poems Of the Twentieth Century edited by Mark Strand
* 1994: Best American Poetry: 1994 (guest editor A. R. Ammons) with "A Catalpa Tree on West Twelfth Street".
* 1991: Best American Poetry: 1991 (guest editor Mark Strand) with "A Whippoorwill in the Woods".
* 1990: Best American Poetry: 1990 (guest editor Jorie Graham) with "My Cousin Muriel".

Books:

General attributes of poetry by Amy Clampitt

Prose

Predecessors, Et Cetera (University of Michigan Press' "Poets on Poetry"

Readable insightful essays on the work of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, John Donne, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, and other poets.

Time Line

1920.
Born in New Providence, Iowa.

1978
Her first poem is published in The New Yorker.

1982
Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1983
A poetry book The Kingfisher.

1984
Awarded an Academy of American Poets Fellowship.

1985
A poetry book What the Light was Like.

1987
A poetry book Archaic Figures.

1990
A poetry book Westward.
Her poem "My Cousin Muriel" included in the Best American Poetry: 1990.

1991
Prose collection Predecessors, Et Cetera (University of Michigan Press' "Poets on Poetry".
Her poem "A Whippoorwill in the Woods" included in the Best American Poetry: 1991.

1992
Made a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation.

1993
A staged reading of her play Mad with Joy, on the life of Dorothy Wordsworth.

1994
A poetry book A Silence Opens.
Her poem "A Catalpa Tree on West Twelfth Street" included in the Best American Poetry: 1991.
Died.

1997
The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Knopf).

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