Free Space Comix

by Brian Kim Stefans

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "These poems remind you of everything possible...They are, at the same time, self-organizing systems, flipping into unforeseen forms of invention that first define, then defy their own dalliance with stability. Brian Kim Stefans' work is smart, wise-cracking, sweet, energetic, brand new, and thoroughly brilliant"-Stacy Doris. Brian Kim Stefans poems have appeared in The APA Journal, The Impercipient, Object, Chain, and The Kaya Anthology of New North Asian American Poetry. He is a graduate of Bard College.

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First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Tyler Ookami]

Had never heard of this poet. Just picked up because the title stuck out to me whilst perusing the American authors section at the library. Reads like a whole book in the 90s cool-guy idiolect that Elmo the exterminator speaks in Steven Soderbergh's Schizopolis. Definitely a book where the phrase "Beavis totalizer" is followed immediately by the phrase "gunk wave". A bit dificult to analyze as literature since most of these poems amount to little more than a series of cultural references and cyberpunky sounding words and non-words arranged in a visually appealing manner. Very Web 1 feeling, like something meant to be discovered via a Geocities webring. I wonder if any of the Anticon guys were into him. Harsh realm indeed.