Poetry. "What do Hugh MacDiarmid, Donkey Kong and the algorithms of pornolize.com have to do with each other? Was Wordsworth all wrong, and is the democratization of language to be found in the work of a whiz kid's Commodore 64? Is it healthy to read the letters of a supermarket receipt for its lyrical soul? What is a 'digital poetics' and where can I get one? Does it hurt? Can I still write 'normal' poems afterwards?"—from FASHIONABLE NOISE
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Brian Kim Stefans' most recent books are WHAT IS SAID TO THE POET CONCERNING FLOWERS (Factory School, 2006), KLUGE: A MEDITATION, 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.