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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'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.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Cracks in the Invisible
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Stephen Kampa
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780821419526
• ISBN: 0821419528
• ID: 04935678
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Weight: 550 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. May 2011

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