Completing the Circle
Anne Stevenson''s Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s during the early decades of what she calls in her preface, ''a newly transformed, already terrifying century''. Most of these poems look back on her past from ''the viewpoint of a bewildered survivor facing up to the realities of time passing and beloved contemporaries dying''. In...
Anne Stevenson''s Completing the Circle is a swansong collection of moving elegies and celebrations written in her 80s during the early decades of what she calls in her preface, ''a newly transformed, already terrifying century''. Most of these poems look back on her past from ''the viewpoint of a bewildered survivor facing up to the realities of time passing and beloved contemporaries dying''. In...
