On Generation and Corruption // Terrence Chiusano 50 pp, unbound/collated $15	OG&C Described "On Generation and Corruption shares its title with a work of Aristotle's (also known as On Coming-to-Be and Passing-Away). “Generation” and “corruption” are printer's terms to boot, indicating the distance between an original and a reproduction-i.e., a copy of a copy is second generation, and so on. Each generation is more corrupt. At some point OG&C became, not only, but also, an exploration of narrative, novelistic conventions set in free fall. Unhinged, flapping. The ear is a prose ear. The shape (of the whole) is a prose shape: posed. I used 'blue,' 'three,' 'francis,' etc. like Hammet did green in The Glass Key-shuffled, unattached, unsought. Maybe OG&C is, in places, too prickly, too shrill; in others it hits just so that tone I was driving for: a swooning, feverish blush. “Three” was procedural conceit (beginning, middle, end-that most basic of trinities), the whole falling into thirds, each third skewered by thirds, threes, multiples of three: could be line count; paragraph count; stanza or stanza and line-within-stanza, or section or section and section-within-section count (“stunts,” “barmaid”); number of pieces per third, etc. It's readable, by threes, front-to-back, top-to-bottom, across, in-to-out-to-in. That's how it's scaled, this fiddle of mine, as Gerald Burns would've put it. Dogget is Mulder's Scully in the X-Files final season-it's about new insides and outsides: Scully, skeptic, plays believer (Mulder) to new agent's (Doggett's) skepticism. Maybe a poem mid-stride hopes for this. OG&C, mid-MS, does it. One thing to remember (about the MS) is: there's a third-third and, if not 'cap,' it's at least a right square bracket; a mitt catching what's thrown back from the front row. " -- Terrence Chiusano To download this eBook, visit the E-Library. Required: free adobe acrobat reader.