bokomslag Cracks in the Invisible
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Cracks in the Invisible

Stephen Kampa

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  • 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'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.
  • Författare: Stephen Kampa
  • Format: Trade paperback
  • ISBN: 9780821419526
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-05-11
  • Förlag: Ohio University Press