Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.
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Broken Hierarchies collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (Ludo, Expostulations on the Volcano, Liber Illustrium Virorum, and Al Tempo de' Tremuoti) have never before appeared in print, and three of them (Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres, Pindarics, and Clavics) have been greatly revised and expanded.
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New in New jacket. Size: 9x6x2; Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.
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New. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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New. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
My copy of "Broken Hierarchies" arrived on schedule, in new condition, and was purchased for less than many used copies cost. I am very pleased with the service.
The book itself is quite something, and I expect that I will spend a long time becoming familiar with its contents.
This book includes Hill's complete published poems over a 50-year span. It is therefore far larger and more complete than his earlier "Collected Poems." Hill had published comparatively little until a remarkable later-in-life creative efflorescence, of the sort that should give hope to many a struggling artist.
To read Hill's poetry is notoriously challenging. Although he uses familiar forms of rhyme and meter, his language, syntax and especially themes are often obscure. Few readers are likely to possess the grounding in history, theology, and literature that might make the poems more easily understood. For us mere mortals, they are puzzles, to be worked out diligently and with the help of some books -- but even at first glance, they are beautiful puzzles.
