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A fiercely imagined work, at once visceral and cerebral, by a poet of unremitting courage and linguistic intelligence. This groundbreaking collection considers the shadings of humiliation, obsession, love, failure, and loneliness—as well as subtle states that have yet to be named. ... Read more

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Instant capture
From the opening poem "Close (Joan Mitchell's 'White Territory')" this book dives inside you and holds court until you assume its power.This astonishing range of poems can make sparks last for what seems an eternity."Failure" conjures up images from Henry IV, Part One, while "The Fabula Rasa" delves into the author's past in radio broadcasting, as does "Warmth Sculpture."Stop reading this review and make the purchase. ... Read more

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Highlights from each of Alice Fulton'sgroundbreaking, prize-winning poetry books.Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive, compassionate, and necessary. Cascade Experiment charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought. ... Read more

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relentless self-psychologizing==massive boredom
Some of the early poems aren't that bad actually, suggestive of a traumatized psyche, especially in descriptions of winter in the midwest. Fulton's gift is for the arresting image and turn of phrase. Her syntactic twists and suspensions can be captivating at times; but over all the poems feel formless and aimless; the book, repetitive and mired in enervating abstraction.

Fulton has been compared to Ammons, because her poems often include scientific objects, like electrons and fractals; but I see little resemblance between the two poets. Whereas Ammons turns outward and gives his voice to the phenomena of the world (and made such a gesture his continual theme), Fulton consistently turns inward, to a private psychology. Nothing wrong with that, but too much of it reveals the advantage of Ammon's approach. And what's this "==" silliness (double equation mark of the poet's own invention, first explained in a poem of that title, then deployed with depressing relentlessness) that consumes a good third of the book? Very gimmicky!

There are a few memorable poems (especially in the first half). The one about pigs and slaughter is truly horrific. That's probably the best poem in the book, the most searing and honest and difficult. Fulton's method remains consistent throughout, so I'm going to quote at random, and let you decide whether it's your cup of tea:

Because believing a thing's true
can bring about that truth,
and you might be the shy one, lizard or electron,
known only through advances
presuming your existence, let my glance be passional
toward the universe and you.

And there you have it: theory of uncertainty, passionality, poetry!

Good Collection from Cornell's Poet Laureate
CASCADE EXPERIMENT collects a lot of the important pieces from six earlier books by Ithaca's Alice Fulton, who teaches there and has taken the place of A R Ammons as the person people think of when they try to think of a poet at Cornell.Unlike a previous reviewer, I never once thought of the word, "percepticide" when I read through this career-making book, but I agree it's an interesting idea and it would be a good prism through which to examine Alice Fulton's poetry.Even the earliest poetry, where she was writing Plath-like, resonant dirges about her father, had to it an abundance of culture.She is the supremely cultured poet, as Wallace Stevens was to a previous generation (he died in 1955).What we get in CASCADE EXPERIMENT is a willingness to try to listen to the other party, which I do agree, would have been a valuable lesson to learn from Abu Ghraib.Like the training bras she speaks of in her poem, "Cherry Bombs," asking, "What did training bras train/ breasts to do?Hadn't I been told/ when stranger offered dirty candy/ /to say no?" she deplores our culture in which we just don't talk to each other often, and when we do, we mistake for hostility or aggression the other party's point of view.Without other people in our universe, and more important;y their voices, we would be nothing but trophies on the wall--brass emblems of which Fulton writes, in another important poem, "Brass wombs/ they bear transcendence/ without blood, pus, piss, spit, snot, or come./Like children, they cry, I won."She sees clearly that children can often be cruel, but that it is not the same thing as adult cruelty, the children are still trying to make it into the mirror stage, feeling themselves unappreciated because they see ow way to distinguish themselves not only from their peers, but from the entire surround.I think poets sometimes feel this way as well.In "Art Thou The Thing I Wanted," Fulton tries to distinguish her priorities, to take stock in middle age."Everything happens to me, I think,/ as anything reminds me of you: the real estate/ /most local, most removed."

She is both local and removed, and also real, like the "real estate" through which the bourgeoise attempts to maintain its grip on society and ontology.

In some ways she is even better than Ammons, who never cared a fig for questions like these.

Beautiful and Compassionate
As I was reading this stunning book, the word "percepticide" kept coming back to me. It was coined by Diana Taylor, and it sums up what Alice Fulton is getting at: that we Americans are mostly blinded by our culture. We're unwilling to look deeply and closely at the things that are most disturbing about our consumerism, our injustice, our cruelty. These poems made me think deeply about these issues: there is a continuing war against women; our culture can be so cold and cruel as to drive human beings to suicide; we have totally desensitized ourselves to the suffering imposed daily on animals; our ability to inflict pain on animals makes it easier for us to dehumanize (think Abu Ghraib) other peoples and inflict pain on them; we must not trust authority; we are infatuated with consumerism; we are destroying our environment; we need to practice compassion. We are the culture, and the culture becomes what it is by our unwillingness to look into ourselves and see how the little things we do every day build the culture. These poems are so carefully crafted, so intricately connected, so cumulative in their stance, and so ethically powerful, that I found it hard to deny the effect they had on me as I read them.That's the reason I'm writing this review (my first). I am so knocked out by the political power of this book that I wanted to spread the word. The cumulative effect of this book is exhilirating. There is so much right now that gives us cause to despair, and Fulton counters it withgenerosity, openness, humor, and a total absence of preachiness. The extraordinary, startling language in these poems, the way Fulton uses words "to build worlds" made me feel hopeful and energized, like Fulton, "trying to open wide" to the possibilities and hard personal work of creating a just world.

Perfect Pitch
I've read some of Alice Fulton's poems before. So what do I think of her Selected? In all honesty, Fulton makes reading seem worth doing, worth the effort. Her poetry has ideas as well as feelings and vice versa. She has perfect pitch and can be moving (sad) or moving (funny). I read A LOT of contemporary poetry, andafter having read her poems "Some Cool" and "Split the Lark", I can say there is no living poet I respect more. This is the best book of poems I've read in years, the kind that will pay you back with interest every time you return to it. ... Read more

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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. How does poetry create feeling? What are fractal poetics?

In a series of provocative, beautifully written essays concerning "the good strangeness of poetry," Fulton contemplates the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome, the aesthetics of complexity theory, and the need for "cultural incorrectness." She also meditates on electronic, biological, and linguistic screens; falls in love with an outrageous 17th-century poet; argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters; and calls for a courageous poetics of "inconvenient knowledge."

Contents

Preamble

I. Process
Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes

Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook

II. Poetics
Subversive Pleasures

Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic

Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions

III. Powers
The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty

Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle

Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson

IV. Praxis
Seed Ink

To Organize a Waterfall

V. Penchants
A Canon for Infidels

Three Poets in Pursuit of America

The State of the Art

Main Things

VI. Premises
The Tongue as a Muscle

A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge
Amazon.com Review
"The better part of fairness is the willingness to move towardwhat is given rather than impose one's own aesthetic on a book. Thisapproach--a sympathetic leaning toward the work coupled with patientrereading--is the one I've tried to realize." In this collection, poetAlice Fulton looks at her craft from a critic's perspective, exploringthe "good strange or eccentric" world of postmodern poetry. In orderto do this, Fulton has divided her book into five parts; the first,"Process," explores the multitudes of filters that stand between thewriter/reader and the work--everything from the computer screen tothat judgmental internal editor "invested with the power of entry andexclusion.""Poetics" investigates the forms postmodern poetry takes,supporting the "free and fractal" with an in-depth examination ofprosody, linguistics, and even the relationships between quantumphysics and poetry. In "Powers" Fulton takes a look at twomisunderstood poets: the 18th-century Margaret Cavendish, Duchess ofNewcastle, and the 19th-century Emily Dickinson--both considered"eccentric" in their own times."Praxis" is a meditation on theauthor's own work, and she follows it up with the final section,"Penchants," which contains three essay-reviews on a number of modernpoets.Anyone interested in the state of postmodern poetry will findmuch food for thought in Alice Fulton's Feeling As a ForeignLanguage. --Margaret Prior ... Read more

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A splendid reflection on poetry
Alice Fulton here offers beautifully crafted essays on poets and poetry, emphasizing the power of estrangement that gives lyric much of its interest. Emily Dickinson plays an important role in this book, but above all the reader will find elegant and telling formulations about poetry's exploration of possibilities of feeling.

Excellent, Challenging, and Accessible
Let's keep it simple: this is a challenging but accessible and rewarding book.It's not surprising that some professional reviewers have carped; the book takes them (often deservedly) to task for preaching "karaokepoetics," parroting with increasing volume and decreasing originalitythings that were said -- and tired -- a decade ago.Fulton's chapters onher own poetry and on Dickinson are outstanding, but the whole rewards evena casual reading.Though it's prose in format, the book is still a poem --a fractal poem -- in the way it plays with its subject matter, diverges onflights of fancy and whimsy, reveals the poet as a person rather than acold auctorial voice, etc.

Startling ideas, gorgeously written
Not since I read Wallace Steven's 'The Necessary Angel' 25 years ago have I felt such a wide-ranging intelligence in a book of essays on poetry. Fulton uses theories of science in absolutely startling ways. Readers withany interest in rich metaphors will find much here that is positivelyexciting and new. Her two essays on what she's calling "fractalverse" are solid, thoughtful, and full of possibilities for wherepoetry can take us. So far as I know, no poet has ever before described the"poem plane" and how poets are at the threshold of"breaking" through it. To me, this is as significant as Pound'sidea of "breaking" the pentameter was when it was first proposed.This book is the work of a true visionary.

Worth the Work
I've got to admit that I'm beginning to lose my patience with a lot of Alice Fulton's critics, many of whom seem to toss disparaging words her way with the flippant anxiousness of young children encountering and smothering something new and intimidating."How do you know that you don't likebroccoli if you won't *try* it," and how will these writers ever lenda thoughtful critical perspective if they can't stop harping on Fulton forrefusing to tow a more conventional, accessible critical stance?Theirgeneric vision ought not be Fulton's problem.It's not my mission here,however, to get into a long dialogue about the critics (Amazon wouldn'tpost it anyway), but to instead come to the aid of an engaging,challenging, and vital new book of essays.Fulton's volume circumscribes atheory (let's make it more approachable)--a notion--of poetics that standsto breathe new life into a discipline that is fast becoming a solipsisticbasketweaving in and around the zillion MFA programs of our nation'suniversities.Her implicit enthusiasm for sharp words (she bitinglyassigns an anonymous, well-known poet the name Halcyon Angeltongue) and forpoetry's good *potential* in these pieces is so forward-thinking andrefreshing that I found myself, ruffling through the pages, suddenlygrandly optimistic for poetry's contemporary cause.In these pieces: Fulton lights on the "screens," both figurative and literal, thatfall between reader and object, individual and elements.She comes to thegenerous aesthetic aid of famous and unfamous poets alike, reorganizingconventional approaches to poetic criticism with precision and concertedcare.And Fulton envisions an exciting, strenuous new school of"fractal poetry" (challenging and quite seaworthy), which"looks to chaos and complexity theory as touchstones for contemporaryaesthetics.These pieces suggest that as free verse broke the pentameter,fractal verse can break the poem plane or linguistic surface."Thiswriting is gleamingly new and often makes for difficult maneuvering, butit's always a dance worth learning, worth the work. ... Read more

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A profound and perceptive fourth collection of poetry explores the themes of science, popular culture, feminism, gender roles, stereotypes, and social institutions. Reprint. ... Read more

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Fantastic.
Alice Fulton, Sensual Math (Norton, 1995)

I'm not entirely sure what to say about Sensual Math. Sometimes you find yourself so wrapped up in a book that you end up with nothing at all in your head; the contents have washed everything else away. The book's twelve standalone poems and two sequences hit pretty much every high note there is to hit.

"I'm faking Lamaze and ancient mantras. I'm having
new veneers. The dentist talks about a relative
who boasted over 364 girlfriends
and seduction rooms in every shade.
He was in air conditioning
and smoked himself to death
though he could hold his breath
longer than anyone else.
'My role model,' he says."
("Fuzzy Feelings")

The sequences are the kinds of things you wonder why no one's ever come up with before, being a simple and awesome as they are. "My Last TV Campaign" gives us an ad exec who comes out of retirement in order to conceive a set of feel-good PSAs for his old company which no one ends up understanding, while "Give: A Sequence Reimagining Daphne and Apollo" gleefully mashes up Greek mythology and postmodern culture, casting Apollo as Fat Elvis (essentially) and Daphne as a mix of role models, from Marianne Moore to Amelia Earhart. It all works wonderfully, which should be no surprise to Alice Fulton fans (of whom there should be scads more than there are):

"...Apollo ate nothing but pasta
with a dab of porpoise sauce. He despised Cupid for dressing in a blouse
slashed to the waist and a tiny gold-lined cape from Nudie's Rodeo Tailors.
For the mixed metaphor of his jumpsuit that flared to wedding bells white
as a pitcher plant's. Apollo was still exulting over

his recent easy
listening hit when he happened on Cupid's opening at the Vegas Hilton.
'What right hast thou to sing "My Way," thou imbecilic Fanny Farmer midge larva,
thou sewer-water-spitting gargoyle, rednecked bladderwort, dirtbag, greasedome
and alleged immortal of a boy,' Apollo fumed..."
("Mail")

Subtle, sexy, and always in control of itself, Sensual Math is one not to be missed. Find yourself a copy pronto. **** ½

A great read: Yes. Dickinson: No.
The title to my review pretty much sums it up. Fulton is a great writer and Sensual Math is definitely worth reading (more than once.) But comparing her to Emily Dickinson is a little outrageous. As poet Li-Young Lee once observed about Emily Dickinson, "you could spend a life time unpacking the meaning from her poems." Fulton is good, but she isn't THAT good!

Poem Envy
I read this book after I looked at a list by Matthew Boroson, "humbly amazed." It's a great list, a course in wonder, as he calls it. Of the contemporary poets he recommends, Alice Fulton is the most fearless, and for my money, the best. Who else would begin a poem: "Is beige a castrate of copper, pink, and taste?" ("Fuzzy Feelings") She's wild, but her work is not obscure. Gender-bending, Elvis (!), lace, particle physics... it's all here folks, and never said more richly. I guess the highest praise I can offer is to say that I wish I'd written this book. Yup, I have poem envy. I highly recommend this book.

Publishers Weekly should be ashamed of itself
Fulton is not Dickinson; the comparison is spurious, and a detriment, finally, to Fulton's talent. This is an interesting collection, but, I think, one not able to sustain the hyperbolic praise that is has garnered. Still, it is worth a close read.

Maybe I'm not qualified, but I'll still speak my peace
Let's preface this review with an explanation -- I'm not an intellectual, and if it wasn't for my perverse sense of humor mixed with my young ambition to take as many courses in mathematics as possible, I would probably never have picked this book up off of a friend of mine's shelf.

That being said, I did pick it up. I opened it, and I had to read the first poem three or four times to make sure it was really as good as I thought. Then I moved on to the next, and the next. Long story short, I bugged the book's owner so much, now the book is mine. I have been thouroughly impressed with each successive poem. Since this (poetry) is not my usual thing, I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe this book.

It appealled to me, a (then) computer science and anthropology double major, and it appealed to my friend, who got his doctorate in literature.

Bottom line: No matter who you are, buy this book. ... Read more

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“Outstanding....Alice Fulton revealsherself to be triumphantly at home in the shortstory.”—Boston SundayGlobeIn 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville—a passion both lonely and funny—shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love. ... Read more

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beautifully written
fulton's characters really do stay with you. i thought it was fascinating the way she shows annie in different stages of life, making it almost seem like she's a different character. i guess that would be true of any of us--if you take a snapshot of our lives once every thirty years, we would seem like a different person in each. i especially liked annie's youthful energy in the title story, although i didn't find "the real eleanor rigby" to be believable. i also enjoyed ruth, and charlotte, deeply flawed, was another one of my favorites. the nightingales is not a page turner; it's almost too subtle to make you cry, and it's not plot driven. i took me a while to finish, but i'm glad i did.

Memories
As 2nd generation Trojian, this book brings back fond memories of the area and the times esp. of family lore.
The Irish view the world in unusual ways and the influence of the Church colored much of that view. Enjoyed all the old expressions and stories it was going back in time and memory.
I enjoyed the book though found some of the sadness and lost opportunities for improvementa bit overwhelming esp. on the choices made.

Frears "the grandest" Dept Storeat Christmas was breathtaking

An English Major's dream book!
This absorbing novel about time and love will make you lose track of time. It's both a deep and funny book.The first story hooked me, and I looked forward to following my favorite characters through the century, seeing how they changed over time. This author creates vivid, believeable characters, whether men or women. I had my favorites but every one gave me something to think about.I was fascinated by the erudite Jesuit, the dreamy bootlegger, the cranky geezer who became a clown, the gloomy disc jockey, the old sailor whose father knew Herman Melville--and most of all, The Beatles, who play quite a large part in the hilarious "The Real Eleanor Rigby."It needs its own category: seriously funny.There are so many surprises throughout as plot threads emerge and are resolved, and the writing is just gorgeous.I think I enjoyed the book so much because it's sometimes very witty and sometimes so very sad.This is a book I look forward to reading again. Highly recommended!

One Hundred Years Of Attitude
This series of connected short stories by one of America's leading poets demonstrates how an expertise at word choice and sentence-making, a sensitivity to the sound of the spoken language, and the use of idiom to carbon-date dialog, are the perfect tools for the task of writing personal fiction. Fulton's characters are developed almost entirely by what they say, either in dialog or, when they are tasked with narrating, recounting some part of the family history. The stories advance the fortunes and misfortunes of the women in the Garrahan family one decade at a time, and it is primarily the language, as spoken or recounted in thoughts, that evokes the times. For the most part this is a subtle effect, and Fulton is expert at adjusting word and syntax choices to locate her characters exactly in their times and places.
Place is also important to Fulton. The connected-stories structure is too compact to allow much ink to be spent on explication of the setting, the mid-Hudson city of Troy, New York. Instead, we learn about Troy mostly from the characters themselves, or the plot-lines. The women of the Garrahan family seem especially susceptible to a gravitational force that this city, old before its time, apparently exerts on them. (I, too, once lived in Troy, for a few years and as a student, and I can testify that my family, for one, is quite immune to its gravitational pull.)
I recently finished Andrea Barrett's "Servants Of The Map", one of my favorite short story collections of the past few years, and particularly enjoyed the conceit of the "connected" stories. There is a sense of resolution that I experienced reading the last story, the one that more or less ties up the references and relationships that were left hanging in earlier, seemingly unrelated stories. To me it's more than a short story collection - it's a new form of novel.
Alice Fulton's collection is even more straightforward and my new favorite, setting successive stories in successive decades of the Twentieth Century. The opening story is about birth and beginnings, the final story is about death and endings, and a close reading reveals many novelistic devices Fulton employs in the service of the short.
She may be a poet of the higher realms but her prose in this book is muscular and brilliantly appropriate.Beautiful sentences, beautifully crafted, never get in the way of the story she is telling; they just make the reader's experience richer and more satisfying (sorry, I am a recently quit smoker and we talk like that.)
I must add that she is also one funny poet. True, some of the women she inhabits in telling their stories are bereft of humor, but when her character is a woman of wit, she is hilarious.. This is a book that can ascend the heights of wit, and descend into deepest, desperate, darkness of the human condition, and return us to the heights, all within a few stories. I loved the roller coaster ride. Try it out.
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Tired of those organizational binges where you shuffle stuff from one room to another - and just end up with a neater mess? Then let this book show you the secrets of putting your home in order and keeping it that way!

Most books tell you how to find a place for everything, then to put everything in its place. Alice Fulton-Osborne and Pauline Hatch add one vital step for lasting success: they show you how to find more places by stremling first, THEN organizing. ... Read more

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An oldie, but still a goodie!
I bought this book after reading on a message board how it had been someone else's epiphany to clean up their house and really purge the excess.I first checked it out of our library, but it was such a good read that I knew I needed to have it on my own bookshelf.

There's a few small bits of decorating advice, but this book is awesome because it gives clear details on how much stuff you should really have and really great ideas on how to store it even in small houses with kids.It's definitely a great read for anyone looking for ideas on how to make their house more functional.

Clearing out the old
A common sense approach to a common problem with a mantra that will hopefully keep you clutter free from now on.

Good Instructional Reference for Decluttering The Home
This book covers all the steps needed to declutter the entire home, from beginning to end.It covers family motivation, project planning, and practical, cost effective tips for organization throughout the decluttering process.This is a good reference book for anyone that is decluttering for the first time.

The Final Word of Clutter and Space Management!
I've read everything out there on clutter and space management and this is by far the best that's been written. This teaches "streamlining" as opposed to "organizing". They tell you to get rid of things first, then organize what's left. They give specific ideas on what to do with spaces. It's witty, clear, and concise. Each chapter is a different area or room in the home, so if you don't have that room or area, you can skip that chapter. It first came out in 1985--so you know the authors are hitting a nerve and delivering solid answers, or it wouldn't have been around so long.

Organize Every Area In Your Home
This book will show you how to deal, once and for all, with chronic clutter, lack of space, and the irritating lost-and-found pattern in your home. This book will show you how to put your home in order and keep it that way. The authors have added one vital step, not normally found in a book of this type. They show you how to find more places to put stuff by simplifying first, then organizing.

Learn of the authors easy eight-step system for simplifying any room in your house.
Step 1. Prepare your family
Step 2. Collect containers
Step 3. Work in a clockwise pattern
Step 4. Evaluate and assign
Step 5. Ask yourself the right questions
Step 6. Group and store like items together
Step 7. Use memento boxes for sentimental items
Step 8. Enjoy the empty space

On your mark, get set, go .... It is best to purchase this book as a household reference book. Copies are currently available on Amazon at under $4.

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Eye-watering performance
How does one convey the sense of what it means to write poetry? Read "Your Card Read 'Poet-Mechanic'" in this volume to understand the power of Alice Fulton's work. How can one conceivably write a poem about dust?Read "Toward Clairvoyance" to appreciate her brilliance. This book is a work that grabs your instinct and won't let go. ... Read more

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Emotion through science to words
Those familiar with Alice Fulton's later works should not miss this exquisite collection of poems.The multiple meanings of "palladium" are reflected in the many layers of her inventive approach to language.From the opening poem "Babies," she forces connections previously unknown and in doing so makes one feel a renewed sense of what English can do.Look into the crystal called "Works on Paper" with its alliteration ("kisses like collusions") and see traces of Clifford Odets ("dears like daggers").Her attraction to science as a source of metaphor appears eloquently in "The New Affluence", and the allusion to the museum world found in her latest collection (Felt) is foreshadowed in "Where are the Stars Pristine".As with the photographic process she describes in the preface to Part IV of this book, these poems display "beautiful rich blacks unobtainable with silver." ... Read more

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Title: Alice Fulton: Felt. (book review)
Author: Doris Earnshaw
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
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Subtitle: The Authoritative Story of Robert Fulton's Early Experiments, Persistent Efforts, and Historic Achievements. Containing Many of Fulton's Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Drawings, and PicturesGeneral Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1909Original Publisher: The Century co.Subjects: InventorsArtistsMarine engineersBiography ... Read more

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A Necessary Poet
Wormser's When is an absolutely stunning and wondrous collection. In these poems you will meet unforgettable characters, and experience heart-breaking episodes of life in this late 20th Century. As deeply crafted as they arefelt, the poems in When reward rereading without requiring it forunderstanding. If you teach, use these poems--students respond to them, andthey are solid, graceful and worthy models. If you just love poetry, don'twaste another day deprived of the excellent company of Baron Wormser'sWhen!

Life can be as simple as a boiled egg.
I love this book.I have heard Baron Wormser read twice, which makes it all the better (he's a great guy) and the book is worth it for the last poem alone, A Quiet Life, which is affectionately known as "the eggpoem".Everyone needs to read that poem.The rest of his poems arehonest and well written, not cloying or in excess.And as for the eggpoem, there seems to be some sort of deep, meaningful philosophy portrayedin a few wonderful lines. ... Read more