Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech!

Name: Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech!
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ISBN: 9781468129847

ISBN-10: 1468129848

ISBN-13: 9781468129847

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ann Hassan

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Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! (2000) encapsulates two thousand years' worth of utterances in a symbolic act of remembrance and expression of despair for the current age, in which we find "our minds and ears fouled by degraded public speech-by media hype, insipid sermons, hollow political rhetoric, and the ritual misuse of words." Through 120 densely allusive stanzas-"As many as the days that were of SODOM"-the poem wrestles this condition from within, fighting fire with fire in an alchemical symbolic labour that transmutes the dross of corrupt and clichéd idiom into a dynamic logopoeia that proves true Hill's persistent claim: "genuinely difficult art is truly democratic." Such is the…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 1/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English