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Cracks in the Invisible
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Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
ISBN13: 9780821419526
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: May 11 2011
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Florida Book Award, Florida Book Award
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 eisegesis); 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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