Broken Hierarchies
collects twenty books of poems by Geoffrey Hill, written over sixty years, and presents them in their definitive form. Four of these books (
Ludo
,
Expostulations on the Volcano
Liber Illustrium Virorum
, and
Al Tempo de' Tremuoti)
have never before appeared in print, and three of them (
Hymns to Our Lady of Chartres
Pindarics
Clavics
) have been greatly revised and expanded.