AMY CLAMPITT REVEALS THE POETRY OF NATURE WITH HER OWN DEFT

The Boston Globe | April 6, 1990| | Copyright

WESTWARD

By Amy Clampitt

Knopf, 111 pages, $18.95 Amy Clampitt is a wonder. Her poems pay lithe and subtle attention to prosody. They send shoots out of their beautifully cultivated stanzas to entwine great writers -- George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Anton Chekhov -- without embarrassment.

She doesn't hesitate to send us to the dictionary. "Squinny" (squint) and "colubrine" (a tropical poisonous snake) appear in the very first three-lined stanza of "The Prairie" -- a long, eight-part narrative that she read as the Phi Beta Kappa poet at Harvard in June ...

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