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Compiles, for the first time in a single volume, the five books of poems published in the poet's lifetime, presenting the full range of her distinctively rhythmic poems about the natural world of her Iowa childhood and other subjects. printing.

Amy Clampitt was born and brought up in New Providence, Iowa, graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. Her first full-length collection, <b>The Kingfisher,</b> published in 1983, was followed in 1985 by <b>What the Light Was Like,</b> in 1987 by <b>Archaic Figure,</b> and in 1990 by <b>Westward. A Silence Opens,</b> her last book, appeared in 1994.<br><br>The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, she was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992. She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Writer in Residence at the College of William and Mary, Visiting Writer at Amherst College, and Grace Hazard Conkling Visiting Writer at Smith College.<br><br>She died in Septe