The words exhilarating, powerful, generous, daring, and enchanting
have been used to describe Alice Fulton's poetry. In Sensual Math,
her broad-ranging intelligence continues to surprise and electrify.
Drenched with the beauties of perception and language, with
syntactical stretch and give, Sensual Math embraces areas often
excluded from poetry. Drawing upon science, myth, popular culture,
feminist theory, and autobiography, Alice Fulton creates an
entrancing and important postmodern poetics. In the sequence called
"My Last TV Campaign," an advertising executive tries to apply the
successful imitative strategies of nature to a context of
consumerism. By reimagining the myth of Daphne and Apollo, another
sequence dismantles attitudes surrounding rape and the ancient
association of woman with nature and man with culture. Daphne
becomes a composite of Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Emily
Dickinson, and Marianne Moore. A major work by a poet who has been
called breathtakingly fluent, blessedly unpredictable, "Sensual
Math" figures the world as a blend of Zen and Elvis, calculus and
honey. The final triumph is that poems so profound can be so
profoundly engaging.
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