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Title: Sensual Math: Poems by Alice Fulton ISBN: 0-393-31445-6 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Publishers Weekly should be ashamed of itself
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Maybe I'm not qualified, but I'll still speak my peace
Comment: 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 firend, who had a phd in literature.
Bottom line: No matter who you are, buy this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: I loved this book. I highly recommend it.
Comment: It seems like Alice Fulton can bring anything into a poem and make it work. In these poems, for example, there's Elvis Presley, faked orgasms, TV-reruns. But she's not just grabbing images from popular culture to make the poems accessible - she's using them, it seems to me, because they're as much a part of our world, our ways of knowing and feeling, as classical myths, which are also here. (See her fantastic reinterpretation of Daphne and Apollo in the sequence called "Give:") And what's as wonderful to me is the lushness of these poems, the extravagance of language, the way Fulton builds up these crystal-like surfaces from line to line or stanza to stanza and makes them tilt, twist, dance. Alice Fulton's poems are exciting!
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Title: Felt: Poems by Alice Fulton ISBN: 039332236X Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton ISBN: 1555972861 Publisher: Graywolf Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck ISBN: 0880014423 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 26 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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