{"product_id":"automaton-biographies","title":"Automaton Biographies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAutomaton Biographies\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length solo poetry book by novelist Larissa Lai (\u003ci\u003eWhen Fox is a Thousand, Salt Fish Girl\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an ear to the white noise of advertising, pop music, CNN, biotechnology, the \u003ci\u003eNorton Anthology of English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, cereal packaging, and MuchMusic, Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe books consists of four long poems: \"Rachel,\" a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott's film \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner \u003c\/i\u003eand its source material, Philip K.Dick's \u003ci\u003eDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u003c\/i\u003e; \"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 biomedicalresearch; and \"auto matter,\" a kind of unfoldingautobiography told in poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbitious, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Larissa Lai (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (UK)","offer_id":44733300572453,"sku":"9781551522920","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_bc8bba38-969d-4a56-977a-dbabe11cea8c.jpg?v=1679345219","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/automaton-biographies","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}