Research Catalog

Title

All clear : poems / by Robert Hahn.

Author

Hahn, Robert, 1938-

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Details

Description

71 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• Although All Clear will serve as an introduction to Robert Hahn for many readers, it is the work of an accomplished poet who has been perfecting his craft for a quarter of a century. With this collection Hahn offers poems that range from sestinas to sharp-edged lyrics, from the meditative drift of "Attending" to the intricate precision of "False Dawn.".
• The settings in All Clear shift from the pastoral to the urban, from Wellfleet Harbor to a Paris street, from an operating room to Chavez Ravine. The figures in the book, including John Huston, Bix Beiderbecke, and J. M. S. Turner, are often artists who altered perceptions of reality by creating their own separate worlds. Ultimately, the radiance of All Clear creates its own transforming version of the world as we find it.

Series Statement

The James Dickey contemporary poetry series

Uniform Title

James Dickey contemporary poetry series.

Contents

A Note on Robert Hahn -- All Clear -- Memories of Texas Falls -- Tell the Truth -- Angels -- False Dawn -- Conversation With a Dealer, About a Painting in Private Hands -- "Mob Rules" -- Venice Obscured -- Olmsted's Fens Corrected by Shircliff -- Summer and Winter at the Mount -- Desperado -- Five Views of This and the Other World -- Photograph -- Attending -- Martinis, Maidens, Midnight Hours -- One More Time -- Out of the Blue -- Wittgenstein Eats -- Shelburne Farms Coachyard, Swallows, Schubert -- April in L. A. -- Heaven on Earth -- Sundown at Santa Cruz -- Charlotte Corday's Skull -- News -- Anti-Magic at the Paris Opera -- Copying -- Interior at Petworth.

ISBN

• 1570031320 (cloth)
• 1570031339 (paper)

LCCN

96004461

OCLC

ocm34114527

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries