By Stephen Kampa
Florida booklet Awards Gold Medal Winner
Stephen Kampa’s poems are witty and stressed of their pursuit of an clever smooth religion. they vary from a four-line satire of place of work inspirational posters to a long meditation at the silence of God. The poems additionally experience the prosodic chances of English’s low and high registers: a twenty–one line homage to Lord Byron that activates 3 rhymes (one of that is “eisegesis”); a sestina whose finish phrases contain “sentimental,” “Marseilles,” and “Martian;” sapphics at the loss of life of Ray Charles; and intricately modulated stanzas at the 1931 Spanish–language motion picture model of Dracula.
Despite the metaphysical seriousness, there's constantly an undercurrent of stylistic levity — a panoply of puns, comedian rhymes, and loving misquotations of canonical literature — that means comedy and tragedy are inextricably sure in human experience.
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