Publisher's Synopsis
"'Stephen Kampa's World Too Loud to Hear is a book about America's "slow-motion, decades long cascade/of violence . . ."-gun violence by and against children, violence of tech driven accelerating change, and violence that permeates almost every aspect of our online lives. These amazing poems manage to be at once outraged and witty, inventive and passionate, nuanced and blunt. The formal poise enacted by and embodied in every line of every poem is a kind of hoped for countermeasure to the brutal realities it at the same time brings so vividly into focus. I can't think of another book that captures so completely the lunatic reality of self-destruction, how individually and collectively, despite our best intentions, we go on "holding a hand-/saw sawing through the same branch we're creaking, shuddering/swaying shaking on." Stephen Kampa is fabulous poet, and this is a fabulous and important book.'-Alan Shapiro"--.
