Kluge: A Meditation, and Other Works

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