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Poetry about the search for self amidst the shrill din of technology. Automaton Biographies Is The First Full-length Solo Poetry Book By Novelist Larissa Lai (when Fox Is A Thousand, Salt Fish Girl). With An Ear To The White Noise Of Advertising, Pop Music, Cnn, Biotechnology, The Norton Anthology Of English Literature, Cereal Packaging, And Muchmusic, Lai Explores The Problem Of What It Means To Exist On The Boundaries Of The Human. The Books Consists Of Four Long Poems: Rachel, A Meditation In The Voice Of The Cyborg Figure Rachel From Ridley Scott's Film Blade Runner And Its Source Material, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?; Nascent Fashion, Which Addresses Contemporary War And Its Excesses; Ham, Which Circulates Around The Chimpanzee Named Ham Sent Up Into Space As Part Of The Mercury Redstone Missions By Nasa In The 1960s And Later Donated To The Coulston Foundation For Biomedical Research; And Auto Matter, A Kind Of Unfolding Autobiography Told In Poems. Ambitious, Eloquent, And Deeply Personal, These Poems Taken As A Whole Are A Personal And Cultural History That Jostles Us Out Of Our Humanness And Into Our Relations To Animal, Machine, Language, And One Another.--book Jacket. Rachel -- Nascent Fashion -- Ham -- Auto Matter. Larissa Lai. “Part exoskeletal enjambment, part shared soft biology, Automaton Biographies wends through creative industries and uncommon commons, picking up the shards of both our latent futures and our Polaroid pasts.”—Mark Nowak, poetThe first poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand) is a multilayered “autobiography” that puts an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, and biotechnology, exploring the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of “human.” Lai, who teaches English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is prominent within the women's, LGBT, and Asian American communities. Automaton Biographies is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (When Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl). With an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the Norton Anthology of English Literature, cereal packaging, MuchMusic, Sanrio, critical theory, science fiction, antiracist organizing, rivers and streams, the internet, and Hollywood, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. --Arsenal Pulp Press