The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

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The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic JustinAt his death in 2016, Geoffrey Hill left behind The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin, his last work, a sequence of more than 270 poems, to be published posthumously as his final statement. Written in long lines of variable length, with much off rhyme and internal rhyme, the verse form of the book stands at the opposite end from the ones developed in the late Daybooks of Broken Hierarchies (2013), where he explored highly taut constructions such as

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