Jim Hanson’s poems speak to the epic issues of how faith is lost in a material and mortal world, and how it can be found through responses that are spiritual and worldly as well as religious and heavenly. They follow the line of paradise lost and gained by John Milton and divine transcendence by Dante, but with the breadth of perennial philosophy. They recognize that faith is doubtful, perhaps futile, like Sisyphus pushing his rock with great effort and no outcome, oscillating between resolution and dissolution, sin and redemption, samsara and nirvana. Is the end another, exalted beginning as promised by T.S. Eliot or the futility lamented by Sylvia Plath and John Berryman? Perhaps the finding and losing of faith is an unending process. |
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