Stephen Kampa's World Too Loud to Hear confronts today's zeitgeist of dark social norms online or off. Our litany of individual and collective shortcomings is laid bare or castigated-as, for instance, with obligations we abhor, avoid, and "can't wait / to pass down to the upstart generations." The delivery ranges from straight or subtle to rants and execrations, while the settings range from historic and current affairs to the imaginary, dystopian,...