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Amy Clampitt lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success at the age of sixty-three with the publication of __The Kingfisher__ (1983). Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing efforts to find a place for herself in the world of literature Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success at the age of 63 with the publication of her poems in The Kingfisher. Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth-religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literar

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Author

Amy Clampitt (editor); Willard Spiegelman (editor)

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231132879

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Criticism, Memoir