Angry Penguins [2000]
Publisher’s Copy
Angry Penguins is Stefans’s third full-length collection of poems, and includes The Overtures of Holograms: Poems by Roger Pellett (“Punks of Diderot/ are smoking by the John/ door, aware of their historical deterrence;”) and Dawns of the B-Machine. The latter section includes “This is Orson Welles” (“the abundance, the dancing, the cowardices, indices/ of a carnival described within its profusion”), “3rd Thoughts on the Tarmac,” and “The Straw Camel,” a long poem (“Progress ‘monstrous’,…That’s not final, by the way”).