Hill is widely regarded as one of the finest, toughest poets writing today. His poems, such as his elegy for anonymous Holocaust victims September Song ("As estimated, you died./Things marched, sufficient, to that end"), are complex and morally gnarly. He has always argued for the seriousness of poetry: after the election's unedifying hoopla, this may stand him in good stead.from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poetry: modern classics: The essential contemporary poets to read
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