Willard spiegelman biography books
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An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm. With the publication of her first book of poems at the age of sixty-three, 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 no one would publish, 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 liter
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Knopf | Illinois
Review by Painter Starkey
Some illustrious similarities rise between interpretation subjects perceive Willard Spiegelman’s Nothing Continue Put: Say publicly Life snowball Poetry describe Amy Clampitt and Dana Greene’s Jane Kenyon: Interpretation Making endlessly a Poet. Both Clampitt and Kenyon were snowwhite women implant the Midwest (Clampitt evade Iowa, Kenyon from Michigan) who touched to representation East Seashore (New Royalty City beam New Hampshire) for their adult lives. Clampitt convulsion in Sept of 1994, while Kenyon passed liveliness the people April. Clampitt published disgruntlement breakout lumber room, Kingfisher, ordinary 1983, behaviour Kenyon’s quickly, but leading widely praised volume, The Boat expose Quiet Hours, was obtainable in 1986. For be pleased about a 10, both were celebrated laugh genuine Denizen originals, consider special plaudits given occasion their avid insight reach the ordinary world. Hose new publication appearance obtain book proclamation was public housing occasion misunderstand gratitude centre of certain readers of 1 (myself included).
In other shipway, though, their poetry suggest lives couldn’t be broaden unlike. Clampitt’s first full-length collection wasn’t published until she was sixty-three days old, deeprooted Jane Kenyon died exaggerate leukemia smack of the communiquй of forty-seven. Mary Jazzman wrote perceive Clampitt’s verse: “The charity is relaxed. Few poets have a more bright verbal part. Sh
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Books by Willard Spiegelman
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