Cracks in the Invisible

Poems

von Stephen Kampa

118 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
• ISBN: 9780821419526
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2011
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press