Speech! Speech! - Softcover

Hill, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582432406 ISBN 13: 9781582432403

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2003

Synopsis

In its ferocity and love, in its glimpses of timeless beauty, even in the praises it bestows, this is a supreme "how to" book - how to be (or at least how to begin the process of being) honest. In speech, for a start. With a poem for each of the 120 days of Sodom, it may go too far - but then, as T.S. Eliot said, it is only by going too far that you find out how far you can go.
This is History (and yet how different from Robert Lowell's unrolling) and these are Dream Songs (and as nightmarishly just as John Berryman's visions). A challenge to all concerned.

About this title

Review:

'The reader winces at, and then is astonished by, the force and humour of SPEECH! SPEECH!' Harold Bloom

About the Author:

Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion and co-director of the newly founded Editorial Institute at Boston University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1582432406
• ISBN 13: 9781582432403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80