Amy Clampitt (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Amy Clampitt’s luminous enunciations in The Kingfisher and What the Light Was Like brought her suddenly into the forefront of American poetry in the mid-1980’s. She is often linked, stylistically, with poets of a younger generation, such as Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Louise Erdrich, rather than with the writers who contributed to her formation, such as John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bowen, and May Sarton. The awards she received (Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982; Academy of American Poets, 1984;...
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