No Messages: 2001 (Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry) - Hardcover

Hahn, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268036527 ISBN 13: 9780268036522

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

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Book by Hahn Robert

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No Messages, the 2001 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize, is Robert Hahn's second major collection of poetry. In commenting on Hahn's first collection, All Clear, Richard Howard called attention to Hahn's ability "to ground his perceptions, his discoveries in a specific circumstance . . . to reach the risen condition, the state beyond, which is the purpose of all his poems". Howard's analysis anticipates the poems of No MessagesNo Messages is an apt introduction to the new millennium. The "no messages" of the title reflects a basic tension in contemporary poetry, between its claim to exist in the realms of language and structure, and its sense of responsibility to render the world in its actuality, in a clarified or confronted state. A striking balance of this tension is found in the collection's central section, a suite of poems responding to the influence of James Merrill. While No Messages is devoted to re-visionings of the world in language, it remains grounded in circumstance and place and in the actions and convictions of historical figures. The book opens with John Knox on the beach at St. Andrews in Scotland and closes with John Brown on the bank of the Pottowatamie River in Kansas. Between these two shores, No Messages describes a series of luminous arcs connecting this world and the world beyond.

Biografía del autor:

Robert Hahn is a Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University.

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• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0268036527
• ISBN 13: 9780268036522
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 138