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
4415	Beach Glass	1 Comment
3291	Fog	1 Comment
2843	A Silence
2367	Easter Morning	2 Comments
1854	Nothing Stays Put
1683	The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews	2 Comments
1546	A Hermit Thrush
1496	A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street
1428	Syrinx
1425	A Hedge Of Rubber Trees
1278	Exmoor
1265	Salvage
1110	Vacant Lot With Pokeweed
1044	On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating