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Archaic figure : poems / by Amy Clampitt

By:

Clampitt, Amy

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Knopf poetry series ; ; 26Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House , 1987.Edition: 1st edDescription: 113 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

039475090X

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 CLA

LOC classification:

PS3553.L23 A89 1987

Summary: We admire Clampitt most of all for the degree to which her poetry imitates, in idealized form, the refined but tortuous convolutions of human consciousness of the highest order. She treats her craft as the great synthesizing art. There is no aspect of myth, history, civilization, nature or everyday human existence excluded from her probative meditations. Terror, headache and drowning are powerful, recurrent emblems in her third book, particularly when she examines the thwarted lives of intelligent women, creating a brooding subcurrent to the controlled and dazzlingly wrought surface of her writing.

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Bibliography: p. 103-112.

We admire Clampitt most of all for the degree to which her poetry imitates, in idealized form, the refined but tortuous convolutions of human consciousness of the highest order. She treats her craft as the great synthesizing art. There is no aspect of myth, history, civilization, nature or everyday human existence excluded from her probative meditations. Terror, headache and drowning are powerful, recurrent emblems in her third book, particularly when she examines the thwarted lives of intelligent women, creating a brooding subcurrent to the controlled and dazzlingly wrought surface of her writing.

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