Description: Explores the use of procedural constraints in the production of poetry, prose and prose poetry. Examines issues of realism, narrative and narrativity, and confronts the problem of how place is constructed on the page. Follows Aristotle's original On Generation and Corruption (or, On Coming to Be and Passing Away) in considering the question of permanence and change.
Brief description: Terrence Chiusano received his B.A. in Poetry Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.A. in Literature from the University at Buffalo. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Yellow Field, Kenning, Ixnay, Queen Street Quarterly, Basinski: A Zine of the Arts, Ignation, and elsewhere. He lives in Pittsburgh.
Review Quotes: "Philosophy always ends in a 'halo of fact.' That is why its findings are neither eternal nor sufficient, and its ceaseless agenda is the leitmotif of Terrence Chiusano's On Generation & Corruption. Taking off from Aristotle, but also Robert Creeley and Vladimir Nabokov, Chiusano proceeds to define a precinct especially for his materials. Lyric distillation is Chiusano's 'gloomy grip' (he has it like no other), and he uses it to structure an esoteric monument. But it's not esoteric as it happens--again, like philosophy, you read merely because you exist and may yet belong to something called 'civilization, ' and you need to figure it out, too. And suddenly: mystery solved. Brilliant."-----Patrick Durgin