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Poem 154 of The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin: . Cinquefoil apple-flowers touch down in grass; early roses … More

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It is too easy–or has been too easy for me–to become ensnared on the sections of The Book of Baruch by the … More

Geoffrey Hill’s The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin takes as its subject and condition the inverse of a … More

Here is a link to a self-portrait by David Bomberg: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bomberg-self-portrait-t03265 Here is a link to a portrait by David … More

In my last post on Geoffrey Hill’s last work, The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin I wrote that … More

In Geoffrey Hill’s final collection, a long sequence, The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, each poem hangs and … More

In his review of Hills final, post-humous The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, Seamus Perry provides a lengthy explication … More

Poetry as persuasive harmony; it rises from the conditions of its making, and justifies itself against the discord of that … More

We are accustomed to hearing that Geoffrey Hill makes few concessions to readers, that he bristles at accommodation, compromise, and … More

Geoffrey Hill died last week, on June 30, at age 84. Nobody doubts that he wrote some of the greatest … More