03225nam 2200565 a 450 991081148950332120230725031359.00-8214-4376-3(CKB)2670000000094451(EBL)1746154(OCoLC)884646793(SSID)ssj0000521760(PQKBManifestationID)11309526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521760(PQKBWorkID)10527554(PQKB)10205335(MiAaPQ)EBC1746154(OCoLC)732958816(MdBmJHUP)muse9412(Au-PeEL)EBL1746154(CaPaEBR)ebr10470375(EXLCZ)99267000000009445120110103d2011 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrCracks in the invisible[electronic resource] poems /Stephen KampaAthens Ohio University Press20111 online resource (119 p.)Hollis Summers Poetry PrizeDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-1952-8 Includes bibliographical references.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 deLayDracula 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; NotesStephen 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. DeHollis Summers Poetry PrizeLifePoetryLife811/.6Kampa Stephen1981-1681965MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811489503321Cracks in the invisible4051718UNINA