[04/14/26] Lessard, William: /face

KERNPUNKT Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 14, 2026

Publisher Marketing:

/FACE is the debut collection from underground poet and digital theorist William Lessard, featuring images and language from patents collaged into poems about surveillance and the monetization of self.

Work from the collection has been featured in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Southwest Review, Action, Spectacle, and Posit.

“…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.” — Rain Taxi