Cracks in the Invisible : Poems Paperback / softback
by Stephen Kampa
Part of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize series
Paperback / softback
Description
Stephen Kampa’s poems are witty and restless in their pursuit of an intelligent modern faith.
They range from a four-line satire of office inspirational posters to a lengthy meditation on the silence of God.
The poems also revel in the prosodic possibilities of English’shigh and low registers: a twenty–one line homageto Lord Byron that turns on three rhymes (one of which is “eisegesisâ€); a sestina whose end words include “sentimental,†“Marseilles,†and “Martian;†sapphics on the death of Ray Charles; and intricately modulated stanzas on the 1931 Spanish–language movie version of Dracula. Despite the metaphysical seriousness, there is alwaysan undercurrent of stylistic levity — a panoply of puns, comic rhymes, and loving misquotations of canonical literature — that suggests comedy and tragedy are inextricably bound in human experience.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:11/05/2011
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- ISBN:9780821419526
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Ohio University Press
- Publication Date:11/05/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780821419526
