Brian Kim Stefans
FOR TRAPPED THINGS
by Brian Kim Stefans
For Trapped Things by Brian Kim Stefans collects poems written during our recent overlapping crises: environmental degradation, the dangerous election, the imposition of false freedoms by techno-capitalism, and the increasingly fraught relationship of the individual and the State.
KLUGE
by Brian Kim Stefans
“Sehnsucht” and “Kluge: A Meditation” have my attention: the former, because it re-allocates sense in favor of the letter, and in the process of pulverizing the word makes the most of material and textual concreteness; the latter, because it transmogrifies the sentences usurped from elsewhere. It's an open secret that Stefans' Neo-Pop sensibility is the flip side of a dedicated, experimental, procedural praxis.
- Marjorie Welish