Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems

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“Fulton’s inimitable image-making intelligence, her peerless music,… her fearless depictions of suffering and creation of dystopian scenarios,… her formal innovations, the admixture of the discourses of poetry, science, and slang: these are, as they have always, been, her elements, her pretty words dealt, as Dickinson would say, ‘like blades.’ … [A] remarkable, courageous, almost preternatural poetic sensibility.” “Alice Fulton… can make you see the space between the stars.… Fulton’s poems give us access to those spaces between and beyond words, a wilderness where meaning awaits capture. There’s beauty and terror to be found in such unmapped terrain, her music rising like the wind whistling between all these ‘finite things.’” “In Alice Fulton’s poetry, those charged instances when the literal and the metaphysical (and the sensual and the philosophical) overlap are often mediated.… Throughout these kinetically textured lyric poems… the meanings of words shift, contort and refract.… Obsessed with identity, yearning and intimacy… they precisely animate these mutable, ever-changing states.” “The work… tackles enduring topics—time, death, love—with a mixture of elegance and agony.… [E]legies capture the emptiness of night hours, the difficulty of truth-telling and the fleeting nature of time. All of this blossoms into a dark beauty that makes these poems glisten.” A celebrated poet returns with a vibrant and kaleidoscopic improvisation on the broken body and questing spirit. US