re: VERSES - Softcover

Campanioni, Chris; Darling, Kristina Marie; Reszies, Heidi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1946031631 ISBN 13: 9781946031631

Publisher: The Operating System, 2019

Synopsis

"What I want is the intimacy of anonymous encounters within the text itself, and yet to be effaced and revealed, even and especially by my own authorial departure. And it would take the form of a repetition or a reversal; a re: verse in which we correspond lyrically; a re: verse in which our correspondence becomes the poem. 

Of course, an integral part of any correspondence is the space between things, those slender apertures lit up with waiting. It is in these liminal spaces that possibility accumulates. We write toward this space, in response to its silences."

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American, the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland, and the author of the Internet is for real (C&R Press). He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and he teaches Latino literature and creative writing at Baruch College and Pace University. His "Billboards" poem that responded to Latino stereotypes and mutable-and often muted-identity in the fashion world was awarded an Academy of American Poets College Prize in 2013, his novel Going Down was selected as Best First Book at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, and his hybrid piece "This body's long (& I'm still loading)" was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival in 2017. A year earlier, he adapted his award-winning course, "Identity, Image, & Intimacy in the Age of the Internet," for his first TEDx Talk. He edits PANK, At Large, and Tupelo Quarterly and lives in Brooklyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Operating System
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1946031631
• ISBN 13: 9781946031631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 78