Clampitt, Amy (1920–1994)

US poet. Her first major collection of poems, The Kingfisher (1983), influenced by the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, contained descriptions of the New England coast.

Working for a publisher in New York from the 1940s, she did not begin to write poetry until the 1960s, and she published her first work, Multitudes, Multitudes (1974), at her own expense. From then on her poems were regularly published in such magazines as the New Yorker. Later volumes of poetry included What the Light was Like (1985), Archaic Figure (1987), Westward (1990), and A Silence Opens (1994).