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damian entwistle Nov 20, 2023

Today's poem:

Athena
- by Amy Clampitt

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/734504003341320192/athena?source=share

#athena #poetry #AmyClampitt #personification #subtlety #devious #paradox #contradiction #devotion #goddess

Athena

Amy Clampitt Force of reason, who shut up the shrill foul Furies in the dungeon of the Parthenon, led whimpering to the cave they live in still, beneath the rock your city foundered on: who, equivo…

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The Virtual Memories Show Mar 1, 2023

New Virtual Memories #substack! This one's got a new ep. on #AmyClampitt, links by/re #EddyPortnoy #HayleyCampbell @christopher_brown #JerrySaltz #anhedonia #KungFuNuns, a reconfigured library & more, so go read, share & subscribe:
https://vmspod.substack.com/p/library-of-babble

Library of Babble

This one's got a new podcast w/Willard Spiegelman about Amy Clampitt, the benefits and back-strains of reconfiguring your space, plenty of links, a funny yoga-pose & more

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The Virtual Memories Show Feb 26, 2023

"I firmly believe that if one is a rational, sensible, common-sensical person, all of life's important decisions should be made on impulse and whim."
—Willard Spiegelman, on deciding to tackle the biography of #AmyClampitt

Renee Feb 26, 2023

“The world 🌍 is a #wheel. /

All that we know, that we’re / made of, is #motion.”

-#AmyClampitt, “Nothing Stays Put”

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#WSJ, “Review”

The Virtual Memories Show Feb 25, 2023

Today's pod-guest, #WillardSpiegelman (+ his partner Ken outside of the diner where we went for lunch post-pod)!
Episode coming next week; meanwhile GO ORDER HIS NEW BIOGRAPHY OF AMY CLAMPITT, "NOTHING STAYS PUT". It's SO good: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622884/nothing-stays-put-by-willard-spiegelman/

#books #bookstodon #podcast #poem #poetry #AmyClampitt

Nothing Stays Put by Willard Spiegelman: 9780525658269 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An evocative portrait of the beloved and acclaimed poet, whose late-in-life success took the literary world by storm. “From the bright strands of Amy Clampitt’s extraordinary life and poems—plus...

PenguinRandomhouse.com

The Virtual Memories Show Feb 24, 2023

I'll be interviewing #WillardSpiegelman tomorrow morning about his wonderful new biography of #AmyClampitt. Here's a review of the book, if'n you're interested https://www.wsj.com/articles/nothing-stays-put-review-amy-clampitt-late-bloomer-aea9dd0c?st=pk362ncd32kp0yf&reflink=article_email_share

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