Alice Fulton ‘s nine books include a new poetry collection forthcoming from W.W. Norton in spring 2015. She also is the author of The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories (W.W. Norton 2008) and Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2004). In 2011, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award “to honor exceptional accomplishment.” She is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell.
Poetry
Summer 2011
A Gift Economy
Because my brook is fluent, I can sleep without a clock under my ear to imitate a true love's heart. Lip to lip and rough and tumble, its job is […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
End Fetish: An Index of Last Lines
& the resting of sinews. a buckle, a sash. and the whole horizon goes. as if to beckon. asleep in its beak. crescents on the windshield. down the field like […]
Poetry
Summer 2011
A Lightenment On New Year’s Eve
Season of no Weedwhackers and wind that moans like a folding choir. Tonight the old is laid away in smoke. Tonight the sodality of fire. Newness is intensely memorable. It's […]
New Voices
Spring 2000
Incarnational Verse
A first reading of Larissa Szporluk’s work always sends me back for more of its oblique seductions. Her poems withhold and disclose with equal intrigue, and their flickering gestures of […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1999
Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, science has turned away from regular and smooth systems in order to investigate more chaotic phenomena. Rather than being divided into the […]
Poetry
Spring 1995
Drills
It was one of those summer immersion courses, where students must speak the language they’re learning in brittle, artificial dialogues, injecting textbook empathy into the tone: “Vous etes souffrant?” “Non, […]
Poetry
Spring 1995
Echo Location
Stop quivering while I insert straws in your nostrils and wrap your head in cloth I have immersed in plaster. For a life mask, the subject must be rubbed with […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Aunt I
A black butterfly lived inside her head. It showed in certain photos as the center ventricle, a bigger emptiness in schizophrenics the latest doctors said. Her cortex—was it truly of […]