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Summer 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 3 • Poetry |

A Lightenment On New Year’s Eve

By Alice Fulton

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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.

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