Against Coercion"The inertia of language," declares Geoffrey Hill, is also "the coercive force of language." Good poets write against coercion, and Against Coercion is essentially about the power of words. Looking at our most highly organized form of words, poems, and how they work, it observes how that work speaksalways indirectlyto historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions, including matters of culture, identity, and feminism. It also demonstrates how to read