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    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas"
    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas"
    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas"
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    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas"

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    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535826181
    A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas"

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      A Study Guide for Amy Clampitt's "Iola, Kansas" - Gale

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      Iola, Kansas

      Amy Clampitt

      1997

      Introduction

      Amy Clampitt's poem Iola, Kansas is typical of her poetry, using her much-lauded command of the language to show that a small, almost unnoticed moment in life can be much more significant than it might at first seem.

      The poem concerns a cross-country bus ride that passes from Oklahoma into Kansas, driving through miles and miles of seemingly empty country before coming to a stop at a diner in a small speck of a rural town. The poem's speaker is moved by the honesty and simplicity of the woman at the diner in Iola and realizes that, though she would never have expected it, she has found happiness at the end of her trip. Clampitt presents the plainness of the bus trip, the town, and the diner with complex language and imagery that might, at first, seem contrary to her subjects, but that end up showing off the depth and significance of things too often taken for granted.

      Clampitt's career as a poet is notable for the quality of her work, but also for the fact that, at age 63, she seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere, publishing her first collection of poetry to great critical acclaim. She published four more collections in the next decade, with a meteoric rise to the highest echelons of American poetry. Iola, Kansas was published in The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt which appeared in print in 1997, four years after her

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