Yann Rousselot

Dawn of the Algorithm is a picture book of 33 wacky and wonderful poems. Dawn of the Algorithm is a bestiary. Please do not feed the zombies.

Yann Rousselot’s poems are characters, twisted mirror-images of their creator, at once atavistically stupid and artificially intelligent. These monsters were born and bred on Planet Pop Culture, raised on a diet of TV tropes, movie clichés, book snippets, and video game storylines. Some have beating hearts, others interlocking mechanical parts. They are forces of human nature, genetically engineer  ...