This Window Makes Me Feel

This Window Makes Me Feel

June 2018
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This Window Makes Me Feel

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"simultaneously banal, vile, funny, and sincere..."
— Ed Steck

About the Book

Written in the long shadow of 9/11, This Window Makes Me Feel replaces the individual poet’s response to catastrophe with a collective, multi-vocal chorus of everyday articulations. Never before published in its entirety, This Window… is one of the earliest examples of a long poem solely composed with repurposed web language.

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Robert Fitterman’s This Window Makes Me Feel taps into the already-faded notions of collective coping promised by an Internet unbound by corporate and state interests. Fitterman’s long poem extracts moments of outsourced tenderness – simultaneously banal, vile, funny, and sincere – to perform as a document of daily human life in a moment of chaos. With the hypnotic mantra of this window makes me feel, Fitterman stacks, strings, and layers group anxiety like an onion over the impending state surveillance of the very window that these voices peer through to seek solace.
— Ed Steck
Fitterman’s works constitute an anti-nostalgic and timely re-iteration of appropriation strategies and engagement in modes of radical mimesis that critically examine capitalism under digital culture, mounting an agenda of changing the distribution of the sensible not by making the invisible visible but by proposing counter-reading to ambient distraction and ever-more insidious textual instrumentalities in a culture saturated with marketing and deluged by information…
— Judith Goldman, Postmodern Culture

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Robert Fitterman’s This Window Makes Me Feel featured as one of the best books of 2018 on Frieze
Robert Fitterman’s This Window Makes Me Feel reviewed on Jacket2
Robert Fitterman’s This Window Makes Me Feel reviewed by Publishers Weekly

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Notes on Conceptualisms (with Vanessa Place)

Robert Fitterman reading for Baratynsky Day 2021

Excerpt

This window makes me feel like I am trembling with fear because normally I’m a heavy-sleeper. This window makes me feel numb and skeptical about most everything. This window makes me feel like I’m watching a runner and she wants me to cross that river. This window makes me feel satisfied to know that I’ve reached a lot of people. This window makes me feel like he isn’t interested or he’s just bored because all he does is sleep or watch TV—he doesn’t hardly ever talk to me. This window makes me feel like I’m cheating because I’ve been intimate with an old boyfriend online. This window makes me feel like he’s choosing to go on a date with her instead of just stopping her from hurting me. This window makes me feel like my current generation is too often described in ways to imply that we need to be fixed or corrected.

Details

ISBN: 978-1-937027-95-7
, 80pp, W:4.8125in x H:7.25in
Publication Date: June 1, 2018
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