Amy Clampitt, Collected Poems

Celeste Goodridge (Bowdoin College)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1997

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Published in 1997, three years after the poet's death in 1994,

The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt

includes the five volumes of poetry Clampitt published during the last eleven years of her life:

The Kingfisher

(1983),

What the Light Was Like

(1985),

Archaic Figure

(1987),

Westward

(1990) and

A Silence Opens

(1994). Clampitt, a major voice in contemporary American poetry, occupies an increasingly secure place in the canon; she might best be described as a late romantic who is thoroughly engaged with her own historical circumstances. As Bonnie Costello maintains: “Clampitt has absorbed the art of her predecessors, while turning her gaze and adapting her skill to the particular urgencies of her time and place.“

In all of her volumes we encounter the same thematic concerns. From poems

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Citation: Goodridge, Celeste. "Collected Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 January 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5842, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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