Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin
, held an appointment at Harvard
between...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anne Stevenson
Her mother, Louise (Destler)
, was the wife of a student when she bore her eldest daughter, and herself read Gibbon
's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire while nursing. She then had...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Anne Stevenson
In the title-poem, each of five stanzas ends with a version of the first closing lines: we thought we were living now, / but we were living then.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.