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On Generation & Corruption: Poems
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Series: Poets Out Loud
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ISBN10: 0823265773
ISBN13: 9780823265770
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 2 2015
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780823265770
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 2 2015
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.
from daybook JULY 1 Bog. Spillway. River bank. Cow shit. Shade pools. Boot prints.
Tadpoles. Reed beds. Shallows. Eddies. Snags. Cottonmouths. Cobwebs. JULY 2
The stare stares behind-the-back, bright, between butt-crack and
thigh. The stare widens into a paddle, wide and flat enough to make a
draft when it flaps. The stare picks its nose. The stare halfway wonders
why the closet door is only half-closed. * * * When ecstasy is parted from its practice, when rapture is forced to
choose, that's me: the first efforts, independent principalities. JULY 3
If I draw a hand, say, or a foot, I tow it into view. If I name, a slender
ankle, a napping neck, I pull it like a dove out of a derby, pigeon out of a
porkpie hat.
Tadpoles. Reed beds. Shallows. Eddies. Snags. Cottonmouths. Cobwebs. JULY 2
The stare stares behind-the-back, bright, between butt-crack and
thigh. The stare widens into a paddle, wide and flat enough to make a
draft when it flaps. The stare picks its nose. The stare halfway wonders
why the closet door is only half-closed. * * * When ecstasy is parted from its practice, when rapture is forced to
choose, that's me: the first efforts, independent principalities. JULY 3
If I draw a hand, say, or a foot, I tow it into view. If I name, a slender
ankle, a napping neck, I pull it like a dove out of a derby, pigeon out of a
porkpie hat.
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