ESSAY If the child is the father of the man, couldn’t the reverse also be true? That the man, too, becomes a child again, in the presence of his own child. 
The Spell of Exile
Chris Campanioni
Chris Campanioni's research connecting migration and media studies has been recognized with the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and 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), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition), the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books), a monograph on migrant subjectivity and works of art born in translation called Drift Net (Lever Press), and north by north/west (West Virginia University Press), which Electric Lit calls “a new kind of origin story.”
