Author : Stephen Kampa
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821419528
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Book Synopsis Cracks in the Invisible by : Stephen Kampa
Download or read book Cracks in the Invisible written by Stephen Kampa and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.