Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Date Published: 03/2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover., In like new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 108 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Date Published: 03/2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover., In like new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 108 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Date Published: 03/2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover., In like new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 108 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 8.57 by 6 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00096 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 05/09/2002
ISBN-13:9780141009919ISBN:0141009918
Description: Used-Good. Book in good or better condition. Dispatched same day from warehouse. Please email with any questions for quick response. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Remainder mark along bottom. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 96 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. 1582431663 hardcover in very good condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Cover has slight shelf wear. Appears gently read. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: As New/As New. 5.5" x 8.5" Tall 1582431663 72 pages. Blue boards with black cloth wraparound binding and blue endpapers. This is Hill's ninth book of original poetry and has been called a "Dantean eclogue for our time and all time". read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: COUNTERPOINT
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781582431666ISBN:1582431663
Description: New. The fourth book of poems by Geoffrey Hill to appear since 1996, this is the final installment of the remarkable series that began with Canaan and continued with The Triumph of Love and Speech! Speech! Read together, these four books--each a distinc... read more
"I think Hill is one of the great poets of our time, but that is based mostly on everything up through his collection Canaan. Since then, I wasn't sure how to take Hill 2.0. His preceding work often used rhyme (not important to me), but possessed a somber and prophetic density (important to me) that moved his work well beyond most of what is being written today. Then the new and confessional stuff started. I think I've finally accepted this shift, in part because I've finally settled on a way to read him (2.0 version, that is). In the past I would work slowly through the new stuff, looking up allusions, which was like pulling up weeds with tweezers -- one at a time. There was no enjoyment. Now, I just go with it. If you're reasonably well read, you will pick up on the main threads (which you will probably have to still look up) and see where he's going.
Orchard of Syon is a trippy affair. If this collection was a movie, you would think it was directed by Luis Buñuel. Hill informs the reader immediately that Life is but a dream, and Hill's dream is one that is a wildly ranging dialogue with an ever shifting You (God, dead poets, etc.). It's the dialogue part of this that you need to get -- which is meant to recall a Middle English translation of Catherine of Sienna's Dialogo, titled Orchard of Syon (I looked this up). The other reference that keeps cropping up is "Goldengrove" -- which is from Hopkin's poem "Spring and Fall." Of course (the Christian) Hill puns away with "Fall," but wordplay - theological and non-theological -- abounds in Syon. There are numerous funny lines in Syon, where Hill often pokes fun at himself, which is quite a shift from his heavy reputation. Oh, History, in all of its savagery is always present, but Hill's ongoing dialogue comes across as a very humane response -- the only response. Imagine Job being done by Falstaff. Since this was an initial reading, I probably have a lot of the above wrong. It will take several readings to peel back the layers of Syon, but I can now at least say that I might enjoy that effort."
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