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Love, Amy : the selected letters of Amy Clampitt /

This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. 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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clampitt, Amy
Otros Autores: Spiegelman, Willard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This extraordinary collection of letters sheds light on one of the most important postwar American poets and on a creative woman's life from the 1950s onward. 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 63 with the publication of The Kingfisher. 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-religiou.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxiv, 304 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:0231507836
9780231507837