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100 1 Hassan, Ann,|eauthor.
245 10 Annotations to Geoffrey Hill's Speech! Speech!|cAnn
Hassan.
264 1 Baltimore, Maryland :|bProject Muse,|c2020.
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504 Includes bibliographical references.
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520 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
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
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600 11 Hill, Geoffrey|xCriticism and interpretation.
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