Amy Clampitt (1920 - 1994)

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Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. She wrote poetry in high school, but then ceased and focused her energies on writing fiction instead. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor. Not until the mid-1960s, when she was in her forties, did she return to writ.. Continue..

Some of Amy Clampitt Poems

A Hedge Of Rubber Trees

A Hermit Thrush

A Silence

Beach Glass

Easter Morning

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