Set in Troy, New York, the stories in this collection follow a quirky and resilient family of women throughout the 20th century, creating a vividly palpable sense of time and place.
When you need it, you can't find it . . . and when you finally find it, you can't remember why you needed it! Alice Fulton and Pauline Hatch show how to get--and keep--a busy household in order. Fulton and Hatch have developed a unique room-by-room approach to organizing a home. No matter what the family size, house size, or income level, this ...
Drawing upon science, myth, popular culture, feminist theory and autobiography, this collection of poems demonstrates Alice Fulton's poetic virtuosity.
Alice Fulton is one of the most brilliant and honoured poets of her generation. She is also among the most thrillingly inventive and compassionate. This is a selection from five books, which charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion and thought.
Tired of those organizational binges where you shuffle stuff from one room to another-and just end up with a neater mess? Then let this book show you the secrets of putting your home in order and keeping it that way. Most books tell you how to find a place for everything, then to put everything in its place. This book shows you how to find more ...
Felt - a fabric of tangled fibres - becomes a metaphor for the intertwinings of humans, animals and the planet in this collection of poems. The poems consider failure, humiliation, obsession and loneliness.
The most salient feature of Baron Wormser's work is its empathy. As he says in "Poems, " Your soul's a canyon. And their souls too. Wormser conflates his soul with the reader's soul and thereby erodes conventional distinctions between "us" and "them." But Wormser seems most likely to identify with us when we feel excluded, estranged, awkward, when ...
Powers of Congress "exhibits, in dazzling language and complex rhetorical structures, a passionate curiosity about all aspects of modern American life. Sven Birkerts, in "The Boston Review," called Fulton a "prodigiously gifted poet," and "Powers of Congress "more than meets that claim. Back by popular demand, this is a reprint of an important ...
In this collection by MacArthur fellow Alice Fulton, experiments with form and syntax create powerful explorations of modern America. Gender, political conflict, and the relationship between nature and culture are among her themes. Initially published in 1990, this influential volume is now restored to print.
'David Graham's poems are wonderfully subtle. They present a quiet, polite, plain spoken appearance to casual acquaintances; but friends with an ear to hear will soon sense that - beneath the calm surface - there stirs a much darker current, urgent and powerful, one engaged by an imagination that is ripe, wild, funny, and true. These poems embody ...
Edition: (1st edition)
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell
Date Published: 2006
Description: FINE. As new-gift quality! "For David Skorton in celebration of his inauguration as the twelfth President of Cornell University, September 7, 2006" 64 pg. commemorative booklet with the poetry of 38 Cornell poets and brief biographies of each. read more
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Periodical. [Wright, C.D., And Amiri Baraka, Alice Fulton, Donald Hall, Sam Hamill, Denise Levertov, Thomas McGrath, Sharon...
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Description: New York: Poetry East, 1986. 219 pp [+xix pp]. Trade paperback. Index. to Volumes I through VII, Nos. 1-21. Very Good. Light shelfwear. Internally clean. Poetry and writings on poetics. 22 contributors include Amiri Baraka, Alice Fulton, Donald Hall, Sam Hamill, Denise Levertov, Thomas McGrath, Sharon Olds, Mark Rudman and C.D. Wright. read more
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