The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian
, which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni
Intertextuality and Influence
Anne Stevenson
Of this volume's three sections the middle one, Visits to the Cemetery of the Long Alive, scarifyingly describes the anguish of the very old who would rather die. In A Sepia Garden the poet...
