tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post6551116450421508351..comments2024-02-23T03:28:33.435-05:00Comments on Culture Industry: Geoffrey Hill's production paceMark Scrogginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01431113440875342809noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-62887972334086112802011-05-22T10:03:12.376-04:002011-05-22T10:03:12.376-04:00Vance is Parmigianino of Ashbery;s ('Self Port...Vance is Parmigianino of Ashbery;s ('Self Portrait in...' book's fame and I think Ron might be referring to his distant relation to Tennyson...<br /><br />Depression? That's no good. Sad to hear, good he has overcome it if he has. <br /><br />I didn't know he had written any more books. I just started re-reading and studying 'Mercian Hymns' - incredibly good.<br /><br />Great poet. Silliman, like Ashbery, a very different kind of poet. All interesting,all vital to our culture if anything is. <br /><br />R Taylor.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-59992962803196375982010-11-01T00:07:00.126-04:002010-11-01T00:07:00.126-04:00Reading a bit in Hill now (the Selected from the c...Reading a bit in Hill now (the Selected from the cover of which he glares out in possibly comic self-seriousness); not-quite-surprised to find him too linking Ruskin and Pound (<i>Triumph of Love</i> CXLVI).Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-82385975858250905002010-10-26T23:44:22.307-04:002010-10-26T23:44:22.307-04:00There may be a photo of me with Joseph Campbell or...There may be a photo of me with Joseph Campbell or Huston Smith somewhere, and the extended family runs the gamut spiritually.Ronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-9689114819923653282010-10-22T11:32:46.384-04:002010-10-22T11:32:46.384-04:00Vance is right; Geoffrey explains this himself in ...Vance is right; Geoffrey explains this himself in his interview with Carl Philips from a few years back. <br /><br />Meanwhile, Clutag Press sez:<br /><br />"Since the publication of A Treatise of Civil Power in 2007, Geoffrey Hill has completed five new collections. Under the general title The Daybooks, they include Al Tempo de’ Tremuoti, Odi Barbare, Oraclau |Oracles, and Clavics. <br /><br />Clutag Press plans to issue Daybooks II: Odi Barbare in 2011. The five volumes constitute the final section of Hill’s Collected Poems 1952-2012, scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press in 2013."Don Sharenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-49246159739504372882010-10-22T08:41:59.608-04:002010-10-22T08:41:59.608-04:00Not sure whether you know this, Mark, and I'm ...Not sure whether you know this, Mark, and I'm not at all sure it matters, but every time I've seen this mentioned, it's explained as due to Hill's successful treatment for depression. (<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2001/nov/17/poetry.tseliotprizeforpoetry2001" rel="nofollow">Example</a> at random.)Vance Maverickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07477306994564623348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11295909.post-87321908616865965152010-10-22T07:10:27.209-04:002010-10-22T07:10:27.209-04:00so he
(seemingly) suddenly
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and a ...so he<br />(seemingly) suddenly<br />erupted<br /> and a continuity / a run of of 'stuff' was produced <br /> and the means to get that 'stuff' out into the light (ie. published)<br /><br /> what IS so strange in this-all that you find?<br /><br />just maybe he <br />as have so been <br />many many many other artists/poets<br /><br />who have spent their (individual)<br /> Twenty Years Before the Mast<br /><br />then .... P O W ! right-in-the-kisser every day they write a book.<br /><br />every moment they are riding on a wave and<br />after all is said, done,and written,<br />there IS only one wave:<br /><br /> non-differentiationEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com