Where Stephen Kampa's award-winning first book, Cracks in the Invisible, wrestled with silence (particularly the silence of God) and how to fill it, his second book addresses solitude. The poems here explore various permutations of intimacy and isolation in contemporary culture and juxtapose them with the difficult models of intimacy and fruitful solitude championed by earlier traditions. Throughout, poetic craft provides a vehicle...
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