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- Cracks in the Invisible: Poems
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Ohio University Press
summary
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.
Despite the metaphysical seriousness, there is always an 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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- I. Sightings
- pp. 5-18
- II. Sidewalk Chalk
- pp. 19-32
- III. Elegies and Valedictions
- pp. 33-48
- IV. Voices in My Head
- pp. 49-64
- V. Absence Makes the Heart
- pp. 65-82
- VI. A Little Wind and Smoke
- pp. 83-106
Additional Information
ISBN
9780821443767
Related ISBN(s)
9780821419519
MARC Record
OCLC
732958816
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No