The Language of Shapes: An Essay on Artificial Life [1990/2026]
Download The Language of Shapes [1990/2026] Introduction An Amateur Sees Around a Corner KRISTEN M. FABIANS The essay that follows began as a letter, written...
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Versuche (Tries)—Uncollected Early Poems [2021]
Download Versuche (Tries) Introduction T. S. Eliot μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν —Callimachus An introduction to a volume of verse exists chiefly to absolve the reader...
Remote Parsee: Writing on Asian American Literature (1992-2002) [2026]
Download Remote Parsee: Writing on Asian American Literature (1992-2002) Introduction There is a peculiar condition that attaches to criticism written on the move — written,...
Beauty Face: A Poem [2025]
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For Trapped Things [2023]
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...
The Who – The Lost LPs [2020]
This is a little project I completed during the height of the pandemic. It imagines an alternate history for The Who in which they released...
Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Rimbaud [2021]
Translated, with notes and an introduction by Brian Kim Stefans. Foreword by Jennifer Moxley. Poet of “logical revolts,” of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and...
Extremes and Moderations: Los Angeles Poetry, Beginnings to the McCarthy Era
Los Angeles poetry from the McCarthy to the Punk Eras My only published essay so far concerning Los Angeles Poetry appeared in A History of...
Arthur Rimbaud: 19 Poems [2018]
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For a New Urbanism [2017]
About Recent poems and translations by the author of Word Toys: Poetry and Technics (University of Alabama, 2017) and What is Said to the Poet...