On Generation & Corruption: Poems

by Terrence Chiusano

Book Overview

Composed of several distinct yet inter-woven long poems, On Generation & Corruption is structured around the conceits of location and dislocation, as it deconstructs a picture-postcard American town. Its title is a clue: in printer's terms, each "generation" reproduced is more "corrupt" than the last. Through this metaphor, Chiusano alludes to the distance from confessional speech that the book embodies in its complex tales and Escher-like syntax...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823265781
• ISBN13: 9780823265787
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 8.9"