With each of the books that followed( What the Light Was Like, 1985; Archaic Figure, 1987; Westward, 1990), she has fulfilled the promise Edmund White and others discerned in The Kingfisher. Critics laud her for 'a brilliant aural imagination' (Joel Connaroe), for an erudition that is impressive, for a linguistic elegance that energizes her verse. Yet what may be most impressive is her passionate articulation of the pain experienced by those victimized and marginalized, whether the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fuller, the Victorian novelist George Eliot, or an anonymous Greenwich Village neighbor.
Amy Clampitt is a major voice in contemporary American poetry, respected in both the US and England. She has published several books of poetry that have received praise for their aural imagination and linguistic elegance. Clampitt's work often addresses marginalized individuals and she has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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