Cascade experiment : selected poems / Alice Fulton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fulton, Alice, 1952-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 205 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2004]

Summary:

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, a selection from five books, charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought. Few poets have Fulton's prodigious range; few have been so consistently and successfully intrepid in their metamorphoses. Writing of "the great integrative force" of Fulton's poems, A. R. Ammons praised their "central music as fine as feeling, as spiritual as motion." C. D. Wright calls her "a radiant poet"; Rita Dove finds her work "enchantingly dangerous"; Mark Doty says her "startling cascades make sublime sense." Cascade Experiment begins with poems of tough love and lyric edge from Dance Script with Electric Ballerina, a first book whose fresh music revitalized American poetry. It includes charming polymath poems from Palladium, a linguistic feast now regarded as a milestone of postmodern poetics. It offers the mind on fire behind Powers of Congress, a book of questing spiritual intelligence and formal grace. And it includes selections from Sensual Math, a collection that ripped through cultural cliches and unsettled complacency as it drew upon the uncanny loveliness of science. The volume ends with poems from Felt, winner of the Bobbitt Prize given by the Library of Congress on behalf of the nation, a book praised by the New York Times for its "marvelous ... poems obsessed with identity, yearning and intimacy." Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems is an event in the life of the English language.

Contents:

from Dance Script with Electric Ballerina 1978-1981

What I Like

Two Cries & A Clutch

Yours & Mine

My Diamond Stud

Second Sight

Life Above The Permafrost

The Great Aunts Of My Childhood

The Gone Years

Toward Clairvoyance

Between The Apple And The Stars

Dance Script With Electric Ballerina

Diminuendo

from Palladium 1982-1985

Babies

Nugget And Dust

The Body Opulent

603 West Liberty St.

Everyone Knows The World Is Ending

The New Affluence

Fugitive

Scumbling

Works On Paper

Palladium Process

Peripheral Vision

Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch

Obsessions

Terrestrial Magnetism

Traveling Light

from Powers of Congress 1986-1989

Shy One

Disorder Is A Measure Of Warmth

Self-Storage

Powers Of Congress

The Expense Of Spirit

The Fractal Lanes

Losing It

Silencer

The Pivotal Kingdom

Trophies

Cherry Bombs

Our Calling

Trouble In Mind

Hardware

For In Them The Void Becomes Eloquent

Cusp

Behavioral Geography

Art Thou The Thing I Wanted

from Sensual Math 1990-1994

The Priming Is A Negligee

About Face

A Little Heart To Heart With The Horizon

Some Cool

Echo Location

two poems from My Last TV Campaign: A Sequence

The Profit In The Sell

Wonder Bread

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Fuzzy Feelings

Southbound In A Northbound Lane

Immersion

five poems from Give: A Sequence

The Lines Are Wound On Wooden Bobbins, Formerly Bones

Undoing

Supernal

Turn: A Version.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393059286

9780393059281

9780393327625

0393327620

OCLC:

54034829