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Powers of Congress: Poems (01 Edition)

by Fulton

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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 collection that continues to exert a wide influence upon contemporary poetics. It will surely intoxicate all those who love the erotic involvement of language with thought.

"She is an ambitious, powerful poet.... She is a thematic gambler of the best sort. Her poems are daring and broad."-Eavan Boland, Partisan Review

"Powers of Congress is a rigorous, generous book, by one of the finest young poets in the country."-David Baker, Poetry

"In Powers of Congress Alice Fulton shows she's learned a thing or two about levitation."-David Barber, Hungry Mind Review

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Powers of Congress was first published by David R. Godine in 1990. Alice Fulton's other books of poems include Felt, Sensual Math, Palladium, and Dance Script with Electric Ballerina. A collection of her essays, Feeling as a Foreign

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--Featured Title in Sarabande Catalog and Newsletter. --Brochures and Postcards to MFA Programs, Bookstores, Libraries, and Author Lists.

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Powers Of Congress exhibits, in dazzling language and complex rhetorical structures, a passionate curiosity about all aspects of modern American life. With a linguistic vigor and intellectual depth that are rare in contemporary poetry, Fulton illuminates such fundamental subjects as war, religion, gender, our obsession with bodily or mechanistic perfection, and the perplexing chasm of consciousness that lies between the "natural" world and what we humans do. These poems are equally daring in their formal inventions; their textual layerings range from acrostics to a dramatic monologue inscribed with readers' responses. Sven Birkerts, in the Boston Review, called Fulton a "prodigiously gifted poet," and in Powers Of Congress Fulton more than meets that claim. This thrilling collection, destined to exert a wide influence upon contemporary poetics, will surely intoxicate all those who love the erotic involvement of language with thought.

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ISBN:
9781889330624
Author:
Fulton, Alice
Publisher:
Sarabande Books
Author:
Fulton, Alice
Location:
Louisville, KY
Subject:
General
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Reprint
Series Volume:
107-42
Publication Date:
October 2001
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
113
Dimensions:
9.12x6.30x.38 in. .51 lbs.

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"Synopsis" by , Powers Of Congress exhibits, in dazzling language and complex rhetorical structures, a passionate curiosity about all aspects of modern American life. With a linguistic vigor and intellectual depth that are rare in contemporary poetry, Fulton illuminates such fundamental subjects as war, religion, gender, our obsession with bodily or mechanistic perfection, and the perplexing chasm of consciousness that lies between the "natural" world and what we humans do. These poems are equally daring in their formal inventions; their textual layerings range from acrostics to a dramatic monologue inscribed with readers' responses. Sven Birkerts, in the Boston Review, called Fulton a "prodigiously gifted poet," and in Powers Of Congress Fulton more than meets that claim. This thrilling collection, destined to exert a wide influence upon contemporary poetics, will surely intoxicate all those who love the erotic involvement of language with thought.
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