Cracks in the Invisible
Poems
Publication Year: 2011
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’s high and low registers: a twenty–one line homage to 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.
Published by: Ohio University Press
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
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pp. vii-viii
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of the following journals where these poems, sometimes in earlier versions, first found homes: Birmingham Poetry Review: “Mirror Image,” “The Therapist on Teleology” The Hopkins Review: sections II and III of “Domestic Operetta for One Voice” (titled “Cleaning House”), “Message on a Bottle” Measure: “Organic Decomposition” (titled “Sinful Roots”) River Styx: “Dracula in Spanish: Imitations of Immortality,” “Streetlight...
Contents
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pp. ix-x
Aperture
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pp. 1-4
I. Sightings
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pp. 5-18
II. Sidewalk Chalk
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pp. 19-32
III. Elegies and Valedictions
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pp. 33-48
IV. Voices in My Head
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pp. 49-64
V. Absence Makes the Heart
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pp. 65-82
VI. A Little Wind and Smoke
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pp. 83-106
Notes
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pp. 107-108
E-ISBN-13: 9780821443767
Print-ISBN-13: 9780821419526
Publication Year: 2011
