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.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

Page Views	Poem	Comments
4387	Beach Glass	1 Comment
3276	Fog	1 Comment
2836	A Silence
2360	Easter Morning	2 Comments
1845	Nothing Stays Put
1672	The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews	2 Comments
1543	A Hermit Thrush
1490	A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street
1415	A Hedge Of Rubber Trees
1414	Syrinx
1268	Exmoor
1235	Salvage
1099	Vacant Lot With Pokeweed
1037	On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating