Cracks in the Invisible. Stephen Kampa

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Название: Cracks in the Invisible

Автор: Stephen Kampa

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Зарубежные стихи

Серия: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

isbn: 9780821443767

isbn: 0

Аннотация:

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.