Douglas Kearney, a featured writer in Kim Schoenstadt's "Painted Over/Under" exhibition from Public Interest: The Summer Cycle, brings you his most recent acclaimed book of poetry. From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, The Black Automaton troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life. In this collection, bodies at risk seek renewal through violence and fertility, history and myth, flesh and radios.