/face by William Lessard
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What does poetry mean in the age of artificial intelligence and the fracking of selfhood? Enter /FACE (KERNPUNKT Press, April 2026), the debut collection from underground poet and digital theorist William Lessard, featuring poems collaged from Google Patents of facial capture technology. Called “a devastating critique of digital surveillance, facial recognition, and monetization of online user data and identity through advertising” by JACKET2, the book includes work that has appeared in American Poetry Review, the Beloit Poetry Journal, the Southwest Review, Posit, and Action, Spectacle. At a time when basic human value is being questioned, /FACE is essential work that channels Warhol, Nancy Spero, and Don Mee Choi.
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“…a devastating critique of digital surveillance, facial recognition, and monetization of online user data and identity through advertising.” — JACKET2
“Lessard’s work is as much a series of ecstatic, poetic lightning bolts as it is a no-holds-barred criticism of the tech world and our Matrix-esque future. Lessard has chosen not just to describe the nightmarish evolution of technology before us, but, like the Futurists 100 years ago, to proclaim its damnation." — Rain Taxi
“Lessard’s work is as much a series of ecstatic, poetic lightning bolts as it is a no-holds-barred criticism of the tech world and our Matrix-esque future. Lessard has chosen not just to describe the nightmarish evolution of technology before us, but, like the Futurists 100 years ago, to proclaim its damnation." — Rain Taxi