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CWRUEnglish: Friday, April 14th: "Becoming a Poet: The Case of Amy Clampitt," a Lecture by Willard Spiegelman. Clark 206. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Amy Clampitt lived in obscurity for almost four decades before bursting onto the literary scene in 1978, when The New Yorker published her first poems.
NewDoorBooks: Amy Clampitt, patron saint of late bloomers:
chessforumnyc: Pinning Down the Cagey Emotions of Poet Amy Clampitt
RichieHof: Savoring Willard Spiegelman’s NOTHING STAYS PUT: the Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt—already a thrilling story of an unconventional poet’s life and also a sensitive meditation on the relation of biography to literature.
EmmertAndrew: i always have too many books going (five times over), but had to make room for the new Amy Clampitt biog... if i could dream up a book i would want (need) to read right now, this would be it. and here it is, poof! magic.
Amazewor4401: The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. ,Amy Clampitt,poetry,
literomania2017: The MacArthur ‘genius’ poet who got her first break at 58.
dooyoocanoodle: The orphanage of possibility
has had to be expanded to
admit the sea mouse. No one
had asked for such a thing,
or prophesied its advent,
- Amy Clampitt
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dooyoocanoodle: - Amy Clampitt
Mary_McCray: Today Amy Clampitt and Mark Strand. "A Procession at Candlemas" Clampitt
KS1729: For all you who suspect that you are too old to start writing a novel or verse, on a remarkable life of a poet of stirring verses
"Amy Clampitt was unknown to the literary world in 1978, when she had her first poem published. She was 58."
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reviewed by Carol Muske-Dukes
Antilogicalism: Late bloomer. Amy Clampitt was unknown to the literary world in 1978, when she had her first poem published. She was 58 by , March 3rd 2023
BookWorld: When Amy Clampitt had a poem published in the New Yorker in 1978, she was 58 and unknown to the literary world. She went on to prizes and acclaim, and a new book tells her story.
geropsych: The MacArthur ‘genius’ poet who got her first break at 58
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lithub: Behold the Patron Saint of Late Bloomers, poet Amy Clampitt.
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ryanaboyd: Amy Clampitt, 1989
Em_Hiestand: from "Nothing Stays Put" by Amy Clampitt
"The strange and wonderful are too much with us.
The protea of the antipodes—a great,
globed, blazing honeybee of a bloom—
for sale in the supermarket! We are in
our decadence, we are not entitled."
Full poem:
ConsueloPoet: Becoming a Poet
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 1 - 2 PM
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
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Author Willard Speigelman discusses the extraordinary life of poet Amy Clampitt, detailed in his new book Nothing Stays Put: The Life and Poetry of Amy Clampitt.
vmspod: Today's pod-guest, Willard Spiegelman (+ his partner Ken outside of the diner where we went for lunch post-pod)!
Episode coming next week; meanwhile GO ORDER HIS NEW BIOGRAPHY OF AMY CLAMPITT, "NOTHING STAYS PUT"
WSJBooks: Well into middle age before breaking into the American literary scene, Amy Clampitt became ‘the country’s oldest young poet,’ Malcolm Forbes
TradFiNews: ‘Nothing Stays Put’ Review: Amy Clampitt, Late Bloomer
vmspod: Man, this Amy Clampitt biography is a blast. (Podcast to come)
issekinicho: An Amy Clampitt and Kathryn Scanlon day, so far.
CWRUEnglish: Friday, April 14th: "Becoming a Poet: The Case of Amy Clampitt," a Lecture by Willard Spiegelman. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. She lived in total obscurity for almost four decades before bursting onto the literary scene in 1978, when The New Yorker published her first poems
aliner: Louis Simpson sitting next to Helen Vendler— unclear if this is before or after he dragged Wallace Stevens and Amy Clampitt in his lecture. One can only *speculate*.
Godgift64107811: Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
-Amy Clampitt
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parisreview: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
Duke202016: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
ojalart: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
CWRUEnglish: Fri, April 14: "Becoming a Poet: The Case of Amy Clampitt,a Lecture by Willard Spiegelman. Guilford Parlor. 3:15pm.
Amy Clampitt (1920-1994) burst onto the literary scene in 1978, when The New Yorker published her 1st poems. Knopf published 5 volumes of them between 1983 to 1994.
peterdamianent1: Athena - Amy Clampitt Force of reason, who shut up the shrill foul Furies in the dungeon of the Parthenon, led whimpering to the cave they live in still, beneath the rock your city foundered on: who, equivocating, taught revenge to sing (or...
ojalart: “At Christmas there would usually be a huge family gathering—pleasant in a way, yet I remember being miserable. I couldn’t deal with all the people who sounded so sure of themselves when I didn’t feel sure of anything.” —Amy Clampitt
parisreview: “At Christmas there would usually be a huge family gathering—pleasant in a way, yet I remember being miserable. I couldn’t deal with all the people who sounded so sure of themselves when I didn’t feel sure of anything.” —Amy Clampitt
tony_domestico: "Those of us who love your language are not about to desert you. And those who don't love it may love something else, and thereby save their souls in some other direction, or so I hope."
- Helen Vendler to Amy Clampitt, 4/28/86
BorisDralyuk: Langdon Hammer, James Merrill, Amy Clampitt, Richard Wilbur, Helen Vendler, and Anthony Hecht — a handful to trust!
yalereview: We've republished six essays from our archive on T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land, which turned one hundred this year. Louis Menand, Helen Vendler, Amy Clampitt, Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, and James Merrill make sense of a famously forbidding poem.
HowSmart: I have only now found Amy Clampitt and think about the wasted decade I have spent here in ignorance. I should leave. I should leave.
B_Morgan14: Love is a climate / small things find safe / to grow in
Amy Clampitt
PaulRudnickNY: Memo to evangelicals: you're free to believe whatever you'd like, but Amy Coney Barrett is legislating her Christian hatred of women and LGBTQ people. Which is Sharia law with a Christian face
shannonsinsc: Amy Coney Barrett is a POS.
tony_domestico: As from a freckling on
the paving to a mottling
to a merging blur, the rain
invents a continent of
inundation
- Amy Clampitt, "Continental Drift"
PalmerReport: Democratic leaders including Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff, Gavin Newsom, Brian Schatz, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, and Cory Booker have banded together tonight to raise nearly half a million dollars for Raphael Warnock in the Georgia runoff. KEEP IT GOING:
MIT_SHASS: Nothing Stays Put, by Amy Clampitt (excerpt)
"The strange and wonderful are too much with us.
The protea of the antipodes—a great,
globed, blazing honeybee of a bloom—
for sale in the supermarket! We are in
our decadence, we are not entitled."
Full poem:
morethanmySLE: NEVER FORGET: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, & Amy Coney Barrett ALL lied at their nomination hearings under oath & committed perjury.
They were *also* Federal Judges at the time! ALL 3 ARE LIARS!
TheWrap: Hundreds of Penguin Random House staffers and other literary professionals are calling on the publishing company to cut ties with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and to cancel her upcoming book.
han_del_: Amy Clampitt on Jefferson
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hestervickery: Amy Clampitt, from After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, ed. Michael Hoffman and James Lasdun (1994)
parisreview: “I wrote three novels. I can hardly remember them. I don’t have any wish even to think about them now.” —Amy Clampitt
ojalart: “I wrote three novels. I can hardly remember them. I don’t have any wish even to think about them now.” —Amy Clampitt
AdiMagazine: A recipient of the Amy Clampitt Residency, Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and the Leeway Transformation Award, her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Oprah Daily, POETRY, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Andscape, and elsewhere.
nathaliejacoby1: BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar DEMANDS that Clarence Thomas recuse himself from election cases because of the conflict of interests posed by his wife.
Comment with a ‘YES’ if you agree with her!
POETSorg: Last night you woke me
for a look at Jupiter,
that vast cinder wheeled unblinking
in a bath of galaxies.
—Amy Clampitt
ColdMtnReview: Does anyone have handy a copy of Amy Clampitt's poem "Discovery"??? you could send CMR's way
morethanmySLE: NEVER FORGET: Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, & Amy Coney Barrett ALL lied at their nomination hearings under oath & committed perjury.
They were *also* Federal Judges at the time! ALL 3 ARE LIARS!
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PostFilm: Also read: Amy Clampitt's What the Light was Like. I'm planning to read Liam E. Semmler's The Early Modern Grotesque and Ritchie Robertson's The Enlightenment; David Fairer’s The Devil’s Cathedral.
jharringtones: Another myth they'd like you to believe, the great American poet, Amy Clampitt, said after winning a big prize, that any reasonably accomplished artist that makes it to over 70 can expect a little career bump, out of sheer art world/media/academic guilt, lol... maybe in her time?
oldbuffalo: beside it-all, all suspend, here: everywhere, existences hang by a hair -Amy Clampitt
Book_Addict: Happy birthday to writer and poet Amy Clampitt (June 15, 1920), author of "A Silence Opens" (1994) et al.
stephen_a_allen: Amy Clampitt was my first real poetry professor, when I was at Amherst College. Today would have been her birthday. This is one my favorite poems of hers.
gregggonsalves: "...--from a nimbus gone berserk to a single gorget, a cathedral train of blinking, or the fogbound shroud that can turn anywhere into a nowhere."
--What the Light Was Like, Amy Clampitt, 1982.
oldbuffalo: I'm in an Amy Clampitt sort of mood this morning
FronteraVerso: Amy Clampitt before noon
Hopkins_Review: NEW FEATURE:
REVISITING AMY CLAMPITT’S “BERCEUSE”: A LULLABY BEFORE NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION
Austin Segrest reads Amy Clampitt’s nuclear lullaby “Berceuse” in our current political moment.
AndrewField37: more - Creeley, who I've read quite a bit of, or early Levertov, who I like - don't seem as powerful as the Bloom people, like Jay Wright or Amy Clampitt. This is an evaluative statement, but why not? That's what critics, and *should* do, overtly or covertly. Critics *should*
ojalart: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
parisreview: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
CBAW_: She currently serves as a Poetry Editor at Kweli Journal.
A 2021-2022 Poet in Residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, MA, she has been awarded the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize...
robertcrais: Elvis Cole. Joe Pike. I have never read Amy Clampitt’s wonderful poem when I did not see them among the 300
parisreview: “Hal and I have been reading Dickens aloud for years; we find it more fun than going to a movie. There’s the sheer exuberance; though it says something about his limitations that doing the villains is generally what we enjoy most.” —Amy Clampitt
ojalart: “Hal and I have been reading Dickens aloud for years; we find it more fun than going to a movie. There’s the sheer exuberance; though it says something about his limitations that doing the villains is generally what we enjoy most.” —Amy Clampitt
Endymion1989: It's Candlemas... so that means returning to this absolutely gorgeous Amy Clampitt poem
AndrewField37: Similarly, why don't we read Amy Clampitt, May Swenson, Marianne Moore, and Elizabeth Bishop? They are enormously important, and their poetry is more powerful than Plath or whomever else. They also form a very important ekphrastic tradition that is criminally neglected in the
BooksieBitus: Amy Clampitt, from "The Woodlot"
tedsimonds: “Love is a climate / small things find safe / to grow in”
Amy Clampitt hugging the ground closely looking at orchids on the beach, from Kingfisher (1983).
GoffJames56: Spotlight Poetry – The Smaller Orchid – A Poem by Amy Clampitt
tedsimonds: After hearing that her first poetry collection was to be published, Amy Clampitt couldn’t come to the phone. Her husband, Hal, said “She’s not here […] she’s outside. In fact I think she’s outside *skipping*”.
Beautiful moment from Mary Jo Salter’s Foreword to the 1998 collected
rajoyceUCB: —Amy Clampitt, “The Kingfisher”
ojalart: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
parisreview: “Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.” —Amy Clampitt
Jake_Sheff: Amy Clampitt on Henry James.
Is it true, that “everything is complicated”?
parisreview: “Hal and I have been reading Dickens aloud for years; we find it more fun than going to a movie. There’s the sheer exuberance; though it says something about his limitations that doing the villains is generally what we enjoy most.” —Amy Clampitt
GuyChats: "Hal and I have been reading Dickens aloud for years" | Amy Clampitt Poet 1920-1994. Can't think of anything worse. Other than Slam Middlemarch
ojalart: “Hal and I have been reading Dickens aloud for years; we find it more fun than going to a movie. There’s the sheer exuberance; though it says something about his limitations that doing the villains is generally what we enjoy most.” —Amy Clampitt
_ted_______: "John Donne,/ I think, would have been more at home/ than the frail wick of metaphor I’ve brought/ to see by, and cannot, for the conflagration/ of this nightfall’s utter strangeness."
Amy Clampitt, 'John Donne in California':
AHA1R: The Edge of the Hurricane by Amy Clampitt
lostincloudysky: 3 of 5 stars to Archaic Figure by Amy Clampitt
alexcarnevale: 1952 letter by Amy Clampitt
rabihalameddine: Five years ago:
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews by Amy Clampitt
skydog811: The Art of Poetry No. 45
