Oh You Robot Saints!

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.


Author: Rebecca Morgan Frank
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 02/27/2021
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780887486685
ISBN10: 0887486681
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh