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Boston: A Mariner Book. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 76pp. Mild fraying to top edge of back cover. Exterior clean. A touch of tanning to pages. Text clean and binding sound
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Canaan Paperback - 1998 - 1st Edition
by Geoffrey Hill
Here is public poetry of uncommon moral urgency: it bears witness to the sufferings of the innocent at the hands of history and to the martyrdom of those who have dared look history in the eye. "Rich, quarrelsome...handsome and brutish...Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse," says The New Criterion. "Canaan is one of the few serious books we will have to mark the millennium."
Summary
Here is public poetry of uncommon moral urgency: it bears witness to the sufferings of the innocent at the hands of history and to the martyrdom of those who have dared look history in the eye. "Rich, quarrelsome...handsome and brutish...Hill's poetry is the major achievement of late-twentieth-century verse," says The New Criterion. "Canaan is one of the few serious books we will have to mark the millennium."
First line
Where's probity in this - the slither-frisk to lordship of a kind as rats to a bird-table?
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- Title Canaan
- Author Geoffrey Hill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, Boston
- Date 1998-09-11
- ISBN 9780395924860 / 0395924863
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
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"Art of the highest lyric intensity . . . it stands with the work of Mandelstam and Montale." Boston Globe
"Among our finest poets, Geoffrey Hill is at present the most European - in his Latinity, in his dramatization of the Christian condition, in his political intensity." -- George Steiner
"Among our finest poets, Geoffrey Hill is at present the most European - in his Latinity, in his dramatization of the Christian condition, in his political intensity." -- George Steiner
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