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

Author City: LOS ANGELES, CA USA

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.