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: On Generation & Corruption is a book to which lovers of pure language can return again and again.-- "--Pittsburgh City Paper"