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008			200729r20202012nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781468129847
035			_a(OCoLC)1189786020
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aPR6015.I4735 _b.H377 2012
082	0		_a821.914 _223
100	1		_aHassan, Ann, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAnnotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech! / _cAnn Hassan.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2020
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a1 online resource (282 pages): _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aGeoffrey 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 cliched idiom into a dynamic logopoeia that proves true Hill's persistent claim: "genuinely difficult art is truly democratic." Such is the weird, ambivalently hostile position of poetry in the present world and thus the space of our real connection to it: "Whatever strange relationship we have with the poem, it is not one of enjoyment. It is more like being brushed past, or aside, by an alien being" (Hill).Befriending this estrangement, embracing it as a more amicable brushing-up-against, Hassan's Annotations provide a thorough and patient explication of Speech! Speech! that both clarifies and deepens the poem's difficulties, illuminating its polyphonic language and careening discursive movement. The author's method is at once commentarial, descriptive, and narratorial, staying faithfully with the poem and following its complex verbal and logical turns. The book generously provides, rather than direct interpretative incursion, a more durable and productive document of "the true nature / of this achievement" (stanza 92), a capacious, open understanding of the text that will prove invaluable to its present and future readers.punctumbooks.com
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	0	_aHill, Geoffrey _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aHill, Geoffrey. _tSpeech! Speech!
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9781468129847
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76533/
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