Clampitt, Amy <br/><br/>
Archaic figure  : poems 
/ by Amy Clampitt 
 - 1st ed 
 - New York  : Knopf  : Distributed by Random House  , 1987. 
 - 113 p.  ; 22 cm. 
 - Knopf poetry series  ; 26 .
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 103-112. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>039475090X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>86046004 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poetry, American
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3553.L23  / A89 1987 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>811 CLA