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- Author: Stephen Kampa
- Publisher: Ohio University Press
- ISBN-10: 0821419528
- ISBN-13: 9780821419526
- Format: 13.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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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- Author: Stephen Kampa
- Publisher: Ohio University Press
- ISBN-10: 0821419528
- ISBN-13: 9780821419526
- Format: 13.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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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