Windows 85

By Chris Campanioni

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POETRY

160 Pages, 6 x 9

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)

Publication Date: October 2024

ISBN 9798989665273

Rights: WOR

Roof Books (Oct 2024)

Price:	$20.00

Overview
Author Biography

Overview

“Windows 85 is a winningly brazen poetry collection of a new erotics, a book in which the second person often comes first. “You” is a slippery subject “woken by the breeze / of your lens”: mirror-selves fleetingly glimpsed, or strangers misunderstood, yet longed-for. Campanioni’s headlong, minimally punctuated writing rings a round of thorny rosies, with pocketfuls, to spare, of kinky poesies amidst the before- and afterglow of queer collisions and near-misses. To be sure, Windows 85 rewards the reader with refreshing games of lyrical leapfrog. Take your place in these lines and get ready to spring high.”—Chris Hosea “I love how porn-esque and abstract and multi-persona’d this book is, how it flows like thought itself, a fleshly lustful floating thinking, not wishing to land, just to stretch out, a long “fingering,” as the poet puts it. A procedure of stretching seems to be his signature—syntax, lineation, enjambment, flickering-between-personae, between genders, between subject/object, seen/seer, screen/IRL … Campanioni appears to take his cue from O’Hara’s “You Are Gorgeous and I Am Coming”—just motion itself, the throb and onwardness, an erotics/poetics of the in medias res.”—W

Author Biography

Chris Campanioni is a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays. His work on regimes of surveillance, queer migration, and the auto-archival practices of people moving across transnational spaces has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and a Mellon Foundation fellowship. Chris’s multimedia art has been exhibited at the New York Academy of Art and the film adaptation of his poem “This body’s long & I’m still loading” was in the official selection at the Canadian International Film Festival. Windows 85 is his debut poetry collection.

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