Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review. Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review. The author would like us to include his photograph on the back cover. He submitted it for the hard cover but we neglected to put it on the flap then.

Lively and accessible, thoughtful and entertaining, Love, Amy is recommended. Library Journal In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters, Love, Amy enables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure. -- Merle Rubin The Los Angeles Times This book is a welcome reminder of the unique intimacy afforded by reading another person's letters. -- Ben Downing The Wall Street Journal Clampitt's letters... Offer an expansive view - of her generous spirit, her exceptional mind. -- Michelle Gillett The Berkshire Eagle Her letters are suffused with an inexorable optimism. New Yorker [Readers] get to see Clampitt's life... The view is as surprising as her writing style, which is clear, vivid and engaging. -- Elizabeth Lund Christian Science Monitor In short, she is heroic. The Letters are very moving. -- Todd Swift ToddSwift.BlogSpot.com Vibrant, attractive, life affirming letters... In this slim collection of letters, is a wonderful sense of the delightful woman. -- Martin Rubin Sunday Times Here is what e-mail has no patience for: grace, wit, wonder, embellishment, asides, details and real vocabulary. -- Isabel Nathaniel Dallas Morning News Women can do anything. Or, at least, some women's life stories encourage us to believe... Clampitt's is one of them. -- Megan Marshall Boston Sunday Globe This is a charming record of a serious, essentially private life... Recommended. Choice The smooth, lucid prose of her letters always reminds us that the verbal athlecticism of her verse... is the work of a highly conscious, purposeful artisan. -- Anthony Cuda The New Criterion Spiegelman's impeccable and (as only the best are) subtle editorial decisions make this volume a rare pleasure. -- Anthony Cuda New Criterion This collection shows how she applied in life the moral inquisitiveness and artistic rigour that makes her poetry so remarkable. London Review of Books He has performed an important service by assembling this selection. -- Karl Kirchwey Philadelphia Inquirer Clampitt's letters, which reveal her sense of literary vocation... are infused with the kind of imagination filled her poetry. American Literature Posterity shimmers in these refractions of a variegated life. -- David Galef Verse From the first page of Love, Amy, an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections. -- Judith Kitchen Georgia Review What a fine book Willard Spiegelman has given readers, a book that will make people read Amy Clampitt's poetry and appreciate the poetry of her life. -- Sam Pickering Kenyon Review

• A Poet's Life in Letters Acknowledgments The Letters of Amy Clampitt Index

Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review. Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. The author of four books, most recently How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry; he writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal and is editor-in-chief of The Southwest Review. The author would like us to include his photograph on the back cover. He submitted it for the hard cover but we neglected to put it on the flap then.

Lively and accessible, thoughtful and entertaining, Love, Amy is recommended. Library Journal In giving us these frank, unpretentious, immensely revelatory letters, Love, Amy enables us to learn more about the remarkable woman who created a splendid body of poetry more likely than many others to endure. -- Merle Rubin The Los Angeles Times This book is a welcome reminder of the unique intimacy afforded by reading another person's letters. -- Ben Downing The Wall Street Journal Clampitt's letters... Offer an expansive view - of her generous spirit, her exceptional mind. -- Michelle Gillett The Berkshire Eagle Her letters are suffused with an inexorable optimism. New Yorker [Readers] get to see Clampitt's life... The view is as surprising as her writing style, which is clear, vivid and engaging. -- Elizabeth Lund Christian Science Monitor In short, she is heroic. The Letters are very moving. -- Todd Swift ToddSwift.BlogSpot.com Vibrant, attractive, life affirming letters... In this slim collection of letters, is a wonderful sense of the delightful woman. -- Martin Rubin Sunday Times Here is what e-mail has no patience for: grace, wit, wonder, embellishment, asides, details and real vocabulary. -- Isabel Nathaniel Dallas Morning News Women can do anything. Or, at least, some women's life stories encourage us to believe... Clampitt's is one of them. -- Megan Marshall Boston Sunday Globe This is a charming record of a serious, essentially private life... Recommended. Choice The smooth, lucid prose of her letters always reminds us that the verbal athlecticism of her verse... is the work of a highly conscious, purposeful artisan. -- Anthony Cuda The New Criterion Spiegelman's impeccable and (as only the best are) subtle editorial decisions make this volume a rare pleasure. -- Anthony Cuda New Criterion This collection shows how she applied in life the moral inquisitiveness and artistic rigour that makes her poetry so remarkable. London Review of Books He has performed an important service by assembling this selection. -- Karl Kirchwey Philadelphia Inquirer Clampitt's letters, which reveal her sense of literary vocation... are infused with the kind of imagination filled her poetry. American Literature Posterity shimmers in these refractions of a variegated life. -- David Galef Verse From the first page of Love, Amy, an engaging voice emerges: curious, quirky, opinionated, rueful, celebratory... Spiegleman has made judicious selections. -- Judith Kitchen Georgia Review What a fine book Willard Spiegelman has given readers, a book that will make people read Amy Clampitt's poetry and appreciate the poetry of her life. -- Sam Pickering Kenyon Review

• A Poet's Life in Letters Acknowledgments The Letters of Amy Clampitt Index