Anne Stevenson: Completing the Circle [2020] paperback GIFTS Soon Luffy and the Straw

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Anne Stevenson: Completing the Circle [2020] paperback GIFTS Soon Luffy and the StrawAnne 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 common with much of her work and fittingly for this wide