Alice Fulton, Author . Norton $24.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-393-05928-1
Fulton's first selected (and her seventh collection overall) cements her reputation as a quirky, increasingly challenging assembler of a pleasantly cluttered, pluralistic, kaleidoscopic world. Grounded in the pathos of personal lyric, Fulton'
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Alice Fulton, Author . Norton $23.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-393-04887-2
These 10 linked short stories by MacArthur fellow Fulton track the lives of four generations of women from Troy, N.Y., where “love comes to die.” The first story begins in 1908, and subsequent stories are spaced approximately a decade...
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Alice Fulton, Author University of Illinois Press $14.95 (109p) ISBN 978-0-252-01280-8
Fulton's new poems, chosen by Mark Strand as one of five winners in the National Poetry Series, embody the principle of poetry as an act of discovery. Fulton's mutable images open inexorably onto new and different ones, creating a sort of...
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Alice Fulton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (113p) ISBN 978-0-393-03750-0
In her brilliant fourth collection, Fulton frequently echoes Emily Dickinson (``Because life's too short to blush/ I keep my blood tucked in''), suggesting in many ways that she may be Dickinson's post-modern heir. In a complex metaphorical alchemy,
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Alice Fulton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $22 (92p) ISBN 978-0-393-04882-7
A dizzying tapestry of essayistic, digressive and lyrical poems held together by a few symbols and obsessions, this ""felt""is fabric and feeling, the colors white and gray, the ""eco-speak"" of botany and chemistry, the figure of Emily Dickinson,...
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Alice Fulton, Author Graywolf Press $15 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55597-286-8
After four books of inventively friendly poems, Fulton (Sensual Math) collects 15 years of eclectic essays in this first gathering of her prose. Fulton (who teaches at the University of Michigan, and has won a MacArthur ""genius"" grant) defends her
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Alice Fulton. Norton, $25.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-24488-5
Fulton (Cascade Experiment), 2011 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature Winner, graces her readers with an artful collection after 10 years of anticipation. The book's title, like the rest of the poet's work, is nuanced and...
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Fulton, Author, Alice Fulton, Author David R. Godine Publisher $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87923-866-7
Although Fulton ( Palladium ) possesses a keen sense of the pliability of language, her imagery is often incoherent or heavy-handed. The poem ``Romance in the Dark,'' for example, begins cryptically: ``The Other, a nebula: / dust that shines,...
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Alice Fulton. Norton, $26.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-324-02108-7
The pithy latest from Fulton (Barely Composed) is a doleful investigation of meaning, expression, and paradox. Some poems feature ambitious, labyrinthine musings while others offer more meticulously precise insights. Reliving the loss of her parents,
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