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Love, Amy
the selected letters of Amy Clampitt
By Clampitt, Amy & Spiegelman, Willard
- ISBN
- 978-0-23113-286-2
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 2005
Collections of literary letters often bemoan the loss of epistolary form. These missives by American poet Clampitt (1920-94) will remind readers who have long since read a letter what a vivid sense of time and place a well-written one can evoke. Clampitt's literary success was unconventional by most contemporary standards. After leaving rural Iowa as a young woman and spending almost 40 years in Manhattan, she finally published The Kingfisher , her ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
