Rolling Windows

Overview

In revolving sequences that entangle prose and verse, art, correspondence, and annotation, Chris Campanioni’s "Rolling Windows" streams encounters of surveillance, digital lust, and epistolary affect amidst fragile media infrastructures, ecological precarity, and the algorithmic composition of the face. Following the speaker on the discontinuous trail of exile and the recombinant zones of encoded networks, the narrative’s insistence on interval and diversion—source, sample, overdub—is as much a proposal for a migratory ecopoetics as it is a methodology for persons on the move.

Author Biography

Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. His research connecting migration and media studies has been recognized with the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and two Mellon Foundation fellowships, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. Recent books include a novel named VHS (CLASH Books), a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition), a monograph on works of art born Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan. His research connecting migration and media studies received the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and two Mellon Foundation fellowships. His writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. Recent books include the novel VHS (CLASH Books), creative nonfiction titled north by north/west (West Virginia University Press), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition), and the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books). He is a writer in residence at Pace University.