Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. "Brian Kim Stefans' KLUGE is cultural karaoke. It takes the last two decades, two centuries, of poetry making strategies and super-texts them under our live dramas of the original language. KLUGE programs the pulleys and levers in the wings of our cultural machinations. KLUGE "Track[s] this spot to th/e edge of tow/n to a hut/with windo/ws." KLUGE, like Ashbery's THE SKATERS, glides us through the snow of discord and arrives at a new general understanding: "I am a, uh, a situation, and I am only, uh, also, a byproduct." KLUGE will give you faith in poetry as a culture-making tool, even if you don't know the words...hum." Robert Fitterman
About the Author
Brian Kim Stefans' most recent books are What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), Kluge: A Mediation, and other works (Roof, 2007) and Before Starting Over: Selected Writings and Interviews (Salt, 2006). He is professor of English and Digital Humanities at UCLA.