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Automaton Biographies

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Description

Poetry about the search for self amidst the shrill din of technology.

Product Details

PublisherArsenal Pulp Press
Publish DateApril 01, 2010
Pages168
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781551522920
Dimensions8.2 X 5.6 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry

About the Author

Larissa Lai is the author of the novels When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen, 2002), Eggs in the Basement (Nomados, 2009), and co-author (with Rita Wong) of the poetry book sybil unrest (Line Books, 2009). Born in La Jolla, California, Lai grew up in St. John?s, NF, and currently lives in Vancouver.

Reviews

Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies wends through creative industries and uncommon commo9ns, picking up the shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts. Her stanzas, staccato and severe, deftly kern our ears to new iTunes and weTunes, creating poems that are simultaneously partial, powerful, and ever-emerging from the post-industrial landscapes where new technologies and alienated labor continue to collide. --Mark Nowak, poet

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