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No Messages the 2001 winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize is Robert Hahnssecond major collection of poetry. In commenting on Hahns first collectionAll Clear Richard Howard called attention to Hahns ability to ground hisperceptions his discoveries in a specific circumstance . . . to reach therisen condition the state beyond which is the purpose of all his poems.Howards analysis anticipates the poems of No Messages which focus onparticular places and characters while they progress through motions of themind and maneuvers of language toward a state beyond which involves areformulating or a reseeing reconfigurations of an apprehended worldthrough language and form.In its exploration of the seams and the seamlessness of language and realityNo Messages is an apt introduction to the new millennium. The no messages ofthe title reflects a basic tension in contemporary poetry between its claim toexit in the realms of language and structure and its sense of responsibilityto render the world in its actuality in a clarified or confronted state. Astriking balance of this tension is found in the collections central sectiona suite of poems responding to the influence of James Merrill.While No Messages is devoted to revisionings of the world in language itremains grounded in circumstance and place and in the actions and convictionsof 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 PottowatamieRiver in Kansas. Between these two shores No Messages describes a series ofluminous arcs connecting this world and the world beyond. «
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