Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt
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- Synopsis
- An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm.&“From the bright strands of Amy Clampitt&’s extraordinary life and poems—plus letters, diaries, and extensive interviews—Willard Spiegelman has woven a gorgeous tapestry of a book.&” —Patrick Phillips, author of Song of the Closing DoorsWith the publication of her first book of poems in her sixty-third year, Amy Clampitt rose meteorically to fame, launching herself from obscurity to the upper ranks of American poetry all but overnight, and living a whirlwind eleven years, until her death in 1994. Years later, as renowned poetry scholar Willard Spiegelman wades into her papers and poems, he discovers a woman of dazzling intellect, staunch progressive politics, and an inexhaustible sense of wonder for the world and the words we&’ve invented to describe it.Giving equal weight to the life and the poetry, Spiegelman untangles Clampitt&’s famously allusive lines to reveal the experiences they emerged from, pulling the curtain back on her nearly four decades of artistic anonymity, and in doing so assembling a rich period piece of Manhattan during the days in which Clampitt worked for Oxford University Press and the National Audubon Society—writing cheery, discursive office memos, and two novels that never got published, before hitting her stride in verse.Nothing Stays Put is a gift to poetry fans, an inspiration to artists striving at any age, and an ode to this most unlikely of literary celebrities, who would publish five acclaimed books and win a MacArthur &“Genius Grant&” nearly all in the final decade of her life.
- Copyright:
- 2023
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 432 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780525658276
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780525658269
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 03/30/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Willard Spiegelman
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.