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Cracks in the Invisible
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by Stephen Kampa


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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.

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  • Title Cracks in the Invisible
  • Author Stephen Kampa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press
  • Date 2011-05-11
  • ISBN 9780821419526 / 0821419528
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010054475
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

About the author

Stephen Kampa holds degrees from Carleton College and the Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in the Hopkins Review, Southwest Review, River Styx, Subtropics, and Smartish Pace. He currently lives in Daytona Beach, Florida, where he works as a musician. Cracks in the Invisible is his first book.

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