What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers

Poetry. Following on the diverse, ambitious FASHIONABLE NOISE: ON DIGITAL POETICS, Brian Kim Stefans' WHAT IS SAID TO THE POET CONCERNING FLOWERS collects an equally varied set of small projects written over the past six years. Ranging from the spare lyrics of "Les Assis" and "Like the Corn Laws" to the socially engaged thought experiments of "The Screens" (which features, among other work, explorations of italics, a poem about ideas for poems, a piece in which every vowel has been replaced with a U, and a sardonic look at "social cripples"), Stefans' work is densely and rewardingly packed with fascinating language and plenty of provocative ideas. Here we have conceptual poetry at its best. Brian Kim Stefans is the editor of the /ubu series of e-books and the creator of arras.net, a website devoted to new-media poetry and poetics. He lives and works in Brooklyn. His book FREE SPACE COMIX is also available from SPD.