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