Love, Amy : the selected letters of Amy Clampitt / edited by Willard Spiegelman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clampitt, Amy.

Contributor:

Spiegelman, Willard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clampitt, Amy--Correspondence.

Clampitt, Amy.

Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 304 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Amy Clampitt was an American original, a literary woman from a Quaker family in rural Iowa who came to New York after college and lived in Manhattan for almost forty years before she found success (or before it found her) at the age of sixty-three with the publication of "The Kingfisher" (1983). Her letters from 1950 until her death in 1994 are a testimony to her fiercely independent spirit and her quest for various kinds of truth -religious, spiritual, political, and artistic. The letters detail her life in Manhattan, a religious conversion (and then a gradual religious disillusionment), as well as her ongoing efforts to find a place for herself in the world of literature. In the last decade of her life she appeared like a meteor on the national literary scene, lionized and honored. The letters written during her years of fame reveal the long overdue satisfaction she obviously felt, along with gratitude, for her recognition.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0231132867

OCLC:

57434250