Oh You Robot Saints!

Oh You Robot Saints!
Rebecca Morgan Frank
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Paperback
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27 Feb 2021
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9780887486685
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Part bestiary, part litany, part elegy, Rebecca Morgan Frank' s Oh You Robot Saints! is populated by a strange menagerie of early automata and robots, including octobots and an eighteenth-century digesting duck, set alongside medieval mechanical virgins and robot priests. From a riveting robobee sonnet sequence that links weapons of war and industrial fixes for infertility to a microdrama sketching out a missing Sophocles play on the mythical bronze man, Talos, these muscular poems blur and sing the lines between machines and the divine. This lyrical exploration of the ongoing human desire to create life navigates wonder and grief, joining the uncanny investigation of what it is to be, to make, and to be made.
Rebecca Morgan Frank' s Oh You Robot Saints! wrangles with what it means to be a person by exploring the history of robotics in evocative detail. The poems wonder if robots--mechanical ones and spiritual ones--mimic creation itself. Poem after poem reveals profound and frightening thinking-through of using robots as a means to talk about more human things: fertility, mothers, and children (and their absences) and what sacrifices robots may make in their saintly and human forms. This is a weird and interesting book and you should read it. --Sean Singer
Rebecca Morgan Frank is the author of three previous titles, including two published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, and Little Murders Everywhere, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, American Poetry Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.
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ISBN-13: 9780887486685
Published: 27 Feb 2021
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Imprint: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 8mm
Width: 5mm
Pages: 96

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