Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994)

Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. Clampitt was the first born of five children. Both her father and her paternal grandfather were farmers. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. Her first commercially published volume of poems, 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 was her last book which appeared in 1994.

She died in September 1994.

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First Line	Comments
In memory of Father Flye, 1884-1985
a stone at dawn	2 Comments
A vagueness comes over everything,	1 Comment
An ingenuity too astonishing	2 Comments
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod
Daily the cortege of crumpled
Like the foghorn that's all lung,
Lost aboard the roll of Kodac-
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day,
past parentage or gender
The West Village by then was changing; before long
Tufts, follicles, grubstake
While the sun stops, or
While you walk the water's edge,	1 Comment