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1 online resource (107 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Aperture; I. Sightings; Phenomena, Numina, Startling Sparrows; Theodicy; 12:13 PM ... 33° ... Low-Interest Finance Offers Available ... Happy Thanksgiving; Behold, I Come as a Thief; Oracle from the Throat of the Cornucopia; The Reclamation of Paradise; II. Sidewalk Chalk; After Grief; Twenty-First-Century Prothalamion; Temptation; Organic Decomposition; An Anatomy of Autonomy; Message on a Bottle; Not at the Grave of Dylan Thomas; Lines for an Inspirational Poster; III. Elegies and Valedictions; Upon First Viewing Ball of Fire; Soul; Upon Finishing Don Juan; Elegy for Paul deLay. |
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Dracula in Spanish: Imitations of ImmortalityIV. Voices in My Head; The Therapist on Teleology; Being Undressed; Masterpiece Interrupted by Hobo, Park Bench, 1999; The Nickname; Reading Pilgrim's Progress While Waiting to Be Tested for STDs; V. Absence Makes the Heart; XOXOXO; Patience; Streetlight and Stars; Nocturne in the Key of Water; Domestic Operetta for One Voice; VI. A Little Wind and Smoke; Autobiography; Mirror Image; A Closer Walk with Thee; Notes. |
| Summary |
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 vers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Life -- Poetry.
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Life. |
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Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kampa, Stephen, 1981- Cracks in the invisible. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010054475 |
| ISBN |
9780821443767 (e-book) |
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0821443763 (e-book) |
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9780821419519 (alkaline paper) |
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9780821419526 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0821419528 |
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082141951X |
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