Title: Difficult poems much of the time, but worth the effort even if the reader doesn't understand everything--hint: use a dictionary.
Product review: Hill is a magnificent poet who wrote very little poetry for many years. Then, as self-admitted, he was given Prozac for depression and it liberated (and lubricated) his poetic talent. His longer poems are Nobel-prize worthy (others have noted this same level of quality). As a life-long reader of poetry from age 16 to 62 who especially prizes the uusual greats, e.g., Keats, Shelley, Yeats, Eliot, Herbert and of course Shakespeare, his poems compare favorably with these poets and are far better than virtually all poetry/fiction written in the last 50 years. He resides on a high plateau with Elizabeth Bishop and Flannery O' Connor. His poems are serious, but humor infuses most of his poems and adds to their high quality. Anyone claiming to know the poetry of the last 50 years must familiarize themselves with these wonderful, magical and often-profound poems.
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