Cracks in the Invisible (Paperback)
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Stephen Kampaâs 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 Englishâs high and low registers: a twentyâone line homage to Lord Byron that turns on three rhymes (one of which is âeisegesisâ); a sestina whose end words include âsentimental,â âMarseilles,â and âMartian;â sapphics on the death of Ray Charles; and intricately modulated stanzas on the 1931 Spanishâlanguage movie version of Dracula. Â Despite the metaphysical seriousness, there is always an undercurrent of stylistic levity â a panoply of puns, comic rhymes, and loving misquotations of canonical literature â that suggests comedy and tragedy are inextricably bound in human experience.