The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
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| Birth: | 15th June, 1920 |
| Death: | 10th September, 1994 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet, Teacher |
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Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. She was an American poet and author. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor. Her first poem was published by The New Yorker in 1978. In 1983, at the age of sixty-three, she published her first full-length collection, The Kingfisher. Her last book, A Silence Opens, appeared in 1994. She taught at the College of William and Mary, Smith College, and Amherst College.
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