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In the News (Fri 5 Dec 08)

  
  Poet Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton's presence in 239 Goldwin Smith Hall is poetic justice incarnate.
Fulton, a professor of English and honored poet, is back in her native state of New York, at the school where she earned her MFA and where she now occupies the office of the late A.R. Ammons, legendary teacher and luminary from whom she learned much about poetry and life.
Fulton describes her return to Cornell as "serendipitous." After an 18-year professorship at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Fulton arrived at Cornell in January with husband Hank De Leo to fill the faculty line vacated when Ammons died last year.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/02/2.28.02/Fulton.html   (931 words)

  
 Reviews of Alice Fulton's Felt
In Alice Fulton's poetry, those charged instances when the literal and the metaphysical (and the sensual and the philosophical) overlap are often mediated by wordplay — a pun, a double entendre, a witty turn of phrase.
Fulton's mixture of media is edgy and experimental — "This is not an illustration." She stands close enough to her subjects to see that art, visual or verbal, is adulterated by evidence of the processes that have made it...
Fulton's poetry has long been the deft handiwork of a writer who delights in the interplay of order and chaos, and for whom artifice and actuality are warp and woof of a tensile fabric.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/af89/reviews/reviews-f.html   (2521 words)

  
 Alice Fulton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Fulton (born January 25, 1952 in Troy, New York, USA) is a United States poet, author, and feminist.
Fulton is also a lauded writer of short fiction, with stories appearing in volumes of Best American Short Stories 1993 and Pushcart Prize XXIX.
Alice Fulton at the Academy of American Poets
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alice_Fulton   (227 words)

  
 Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ Berrien ]
JAMES E. FULTON is a wide-awake citizen of Berrien County, Mich., and as he has resided here ever since his birth, on the 13th of May, 1851, the people have had every opportunity to judge of his character and qualifications as a man of affairs, and naught has ever been said derogatory to his honor.
Fulton was married to Miss Alice Helmick, a native of the State of New York, and the fruits of this union are two children, Robert Alexander and Stanley H. Mr.
Fulton is a prominent citizen in his township, and has held many local offices, the most prominent being School Inspector, Township Treasurer, Highway Commissioner, and for several terms he was on the Board of Review.
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 Boston Review: Carson, Fulton, Rankine
Mitchell, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, herself suggested a reciprocity of poetic and painterly agendas when she said that a territory "is a lyric space." Similarly, Fulton uses the process of taking in a painting—and being taken in by it—to map a lyric space of vulnerable exposure.
Fulton's mixture of media is edgy and experimental—"This is not an illustration." She stands close enough to her subjects to see that art, visual or verbal, is adulterated by evidence of the processes that have made it.
In "Prequel," another poem that draws on the visual arts, Fulton dramatizes the principles of provisional and peripheral vision on which many of her poems are written.
www.bostonreview.net /BR26.5/fischer.html   (1745 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors Books: Fulton Alice
Fulton is not Dickinson; the comparison is spurious, and a detriment, finally, to Fulton's talent.
Alice Fulton here offers beautifully crafted essays on poets and poetry, emphasizing the power of estrangement that gives lyric much of its interest.
Fulton's chapters on her own poetry and on Dickinson are outstanding, but the whole rewards even a casual reading.
www.geometry.net /authors_bk/fulton_alice.html   (1342 words)

  
 Alice Fulton wins Bobbitt Prize
Fulton was chosen by a three-member jury of American poets appointed in July by a selection committee composed of the librarian of Congress, the poet laureate consultant in poetry, a publisher named by the Academy of American Poets and a literary critic nominated by the Bobbitt family.
In awarding the prize, poets David Baker, Eamon Grennan and Heather McHugh, members of the Bobbitt prize jury, stated, "Alice Fulton's latest collection sizzles with logophilia and tropes, is blessed with the kind of direct wiring between sensation and language, feeling and form, that strikes first with physical and then with intellectual and emotional wallop.
Fulton, who joined the Cornell faculty in 2001, sees the award as an honorary symbol or distinction that helps to enhance her role as a teacher.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/02/11.21.02/Fulton-Bobbitt.html   (800 words)

  
 Alice Fulton's Biographic Sketch
Alice Fulton's most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment, published by W.W. Norton in 2004.
Joseph Klein's computer music for three of Alice Fulton's poems premiered in the University of North Texas Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia Concert Series on April 4, 2005, along with James Worlton's premeire of The Etiquette of Ice, settings of three poems sung by soprano Heidi Klein and conducted by Joseph Klein.
Alice Fulton was the 2004 Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/af89/bionote/bionote.html   (707 words)

  
 Sarabande Books - Book Description
Fulton is embarked on a project to redefine or recreate poetry according to the multiforms of experience and intellect, rather than to shape experience by modeling it on a received poetic vision.
Fulton transcribes what might admiringly be called a poetics of contemporary disquiet, jagged and jazzy wordcraft that simultaneously entertains bravado and doubt, irreverence and devotion.
Alice Fulton has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, The Michigan Society of Fellows.
www.sarabandebooks.org /sarabande/Authors/Alice%20Fulton/1002639881119   (537 words)

  
 Felt (Main Page)
In this groundbreaking collection, Alice Fulton weds her celebrated linguistic freshness to a fierce emotional depth.
"In Alice Fulton's poetry, those charged instances when the literal and the metaphysical (and the sensual and the philosophical) overlap are often mediated by wordplay—a pun, a double entendre, a witty turn of phrase.
Alice Fulton is the author of Sensual Math and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall01/032236.htm   (833 words)

  
 2002 Bobbitt Poetry Prize Awarded to Alice Fulton
Fulton is the recipient of many other awards and honors, including fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Currently professor of English at Cornell University, Alice Fulton has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; Ohio State University; Columbus University; and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
"Alice Fulton's latest collection sizzles with logophilia and tropes, is blessed with the kind of direct wiring between sensation and language, feeling and form, that strikes first with physical and then with intellectual and emotional wallop.
www.loc.gov /today/pr/2002/02-162.html   (683 words)

  
 Alice Fulton / Dance Script With Electric Ballerina
Alice Fulton / Dance Script With Electric Ballerina
Alice Fulton's writing has been characterized by The New Yorker as "electrifying," and the poet herself, according to Publishers Weekly, "may be Dickinson's postmodern heir."
ALICE FULTON, a MacArthur Fellow and professor of English at the University of Michigan, is the author of a number of books including Palladium, published in 1986 by the University of Illinois Press.
www.press.uillinois.edu /f96/fulton.html   (190 words)

  
 Patience, solitude, Catholic upbringing contributed to development of her poetry
Fulton would also spend hours transcribing song lyrics from her record collection in order to learn the musical qualities of language.
Fulton, good poetry has "qualities of beauty and music," incorporating subtlety and complexity in order to "retain the interest of a reader through infinite readings.
Fulton reflects on the young writer she once was while looking at the young writers she teaches at Cornell.
www.evangelist.org /archive/htm4/0227fult.htm   (514 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sensual Math: Poems: Books: Alice Fulton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In a complex metaphorical alchemy, Fulton blends Elvis and orchids, TV ads and Greek mythology, sculpting these elements on the page with controlled language and her mastery of the lyric.
Fulton, winner of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, reveals humor, intelligence, and an exquisite sense of language in her fourth collection.
Fulton is a great writer and Sensual Math is definitely worth reading (more than once.) But comparing her to Emily Dickinson is a little outrageous.
www.amazon.com /Sensual-Math-Poems-Alice-Fulton/dp/0393314456   (1286 words)

  
 Cornell News: Alice Fulton poetry prize
Poet Alice Fulton is awarded the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry presented by the Library of Congress
To wit: Alice Fulton, professor of English at Cornell University, has been awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her 2001 book of poetry, Felt.
In awarding the prize, poets David Baker, Eamon Grennan and Heather McHugh, members of the Bobbitt prize jury, stated, "Alice Fulton's latest collection … is blessed with the kind of direct wiring between sensation and language, feeling and form, that strikes first with physical and then with intellectual and emotional wallop.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Nov02/Fulton.Bobbitt.html   (792 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Fulton Alice
Alice Fulton's fiction has been selected for The Best American Short Stories, and she has received the Editor's Prize in Fiction from the Missouri Review.
Alice Fulton Alice Fulton's books of poetry include Sensual Math (W. Norton, 1995); Powers of Congress Palladium, winner of the 1985 National Poetry Series and the 1987 Society of Midland Authors Award; and Dance Script With Electric Ballerina (1982; University of Illinois reissue 1996), winner of The Associated Writing Programs Award.
Alice Fulton counters invisible assumptions with magnitude and grace.Poems about failure, humiliation, obsession, and loneliness fill this collection of verse.
www.geometry.net /detail/authors/fulton_alice.html   (2330 words)

  
 Alice Fulton Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Fulton and Hatch have developed a unique room-by-room approach to organizing a home.
Alice Fulton counters invisible assumptions with magnitude and...
Over the past twenty years, Alice Fulton has emerged as one of the most brilliant and honored poets of her generation.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alice_Fulton   (539 words)

  
 Definition of Alice Fulton
In 1991, Alice Fulton was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her poetry.
Her best known work is Felt (2001), a collection of poems based on the interconnectedness of all living things, for which she received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress in 2003.
Alice Fulton at the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/poetry/bobbitt.html)
www.wordiq.com /definition/Alice_Fulton   (245 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton talks about her book Cascade Experiment in Atlantic Unbound.
Alice Fulton's most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and Co., 2004).
Turbulence: A Romance, a song cycle with music by William Bolcom and words by Alice Fulton, debuted at the Walker Art Center in 1997.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/45   (368 words)

  
 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Surnames of Fulton County Ohio and Before
Maude SALLABANK was born 1871 in Fulton Co., Wauseon, Ohio, and died 1885 in Fulton Co., Wauseon, Ohio.
George SALLABANK was born 20 JUL 1873 in Fulton Co., Wauseon, Ohio, and died 18 OCT 1897 in Fulton Co., Wauseon, Ohio.
Beulah Inis Alice FORD was born 15 JUL 1921 in Highland, KS, and died 31 OCT 1955 in Horton, KS.
worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=12290&id=I09165   (2040 words)

  
 FULTON
Her son Walter Sheppard FULTON joined his uncle in his law firm (the first law firm in Washington State) and was a famous criminal attorney.
Nancy (Stewart) Gates gates@innet.com is a descendant of Abram and Jane (Coe) Fulton.
KKB's research suggests that this Fulton was a minister, father of David W. Fulton b 1830, in turn grandfather of a daughter born in Stateline, Indiana, ca 1850.
www.irishgenealogy.com /fulton.htm   (6035 words)

  
 University of Virginia News Story
April 6, 2006 -- Acclaimed poet Alice Fulton will be in residence at the University of Virginia the week of April 10 as the 2005-2006 Rea Visiting Writer in Poetry.
Fulton’s most recent book of poems is “Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems.” Her book “Felt” (2001) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbit National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and also was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001.
Fulton has received fellowships form the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, R.I. She currently serves as the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University.
www.virginia.edu /topnews/releases2006/20060406Alice_Fulton.html   (402 words)

  
 Poetry: Julia Alvarez
Click here for Fulton’s authorized homepage, featuring extensive biographical information, the text of her poems, and upcoming appearances.
Alice Fulton was born in 1952 in Troy, New York, where she grew up.
Winner of many fellowships and awards, she is author of five books of poetry and a collection of essays.
www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/fulton.htm   (172 words)

  
 Fulton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Fulton, founder of the Iowa State Agricultural Society
John P. Fulton, special effects supervisor and cinematographer
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fulton   (86 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Alice Fulton
Alice Fulton, 53, a biochemistry professor from Iowa City who posted on, said she wanted her carrier, Qwest, to know she's appreciative.
Nothing brings a smile faster to Alice Fultons face than talking about her family.
Alice Fulton is an expert in critical (that means Marxist) writing, postmodernism, and feminist theory.
news.surfwax.com /authors/files/Alice_Fulton_Book.html   (113 words)

  
 Constant Critic Reviews | Jordan Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Fulton, a MacArthur fellow and winner of the Library of Congress’ Bobbitt Prize, gives the impression of being genuinely ambivalent about both the liberties she is inspired to take as well as the necessity of explaining herself.
Although the exuberance of these poems occasionally gives Fulton an opportunity to criticize herself (“flaccid vivacity” is the harsh and striking way she puts it), the affect that comes through is lively, the insight piercing.
Some poets move on from the secure but stultifying habit of fulfilling some dead one’s proscriptions, a period sometimes referred to as apprenticeship, to undertake the frightening and rewarding process of learning to create on their own terms, whatever that means.
www.constantcritic.com /archive.cgi?rev=Jordan_Davis&name=Cascade%20Experiment:%20Selected%20Poems   (833 words)

  
 Alice Fulton | List of Book Publications | Poetry | Fiction | Essays
Kathy Rugoff, “To ‘tell it slant’: Emily Dickinson’s Aesthetics in the Poetry of Jorie Graham and Alice Fulton,” paper delivered at the College English Association's 35th Annual Convention, Richmond, Virginia, April 1-3, 2004.
Joseph Duemer, "Theft: An Essay in the Poetics of Scientific Language [Alice Fulton, Albert Goldbarth, and Claire Bateman]," paper delivered at the Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, Nov. 5-8, 1998.
Cristanne Miller, "'The Erogenous Cusp' or Intersections of Science and Gender in Alice Fulton's Poetry," in Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller, eds., Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994), pp.
people.cornell.edu /pages/af89/books/books.html   (2275 words)

  
 Poet: Alice Fulton - All poems of Alice Fulton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Linden Ontjes, "The Wick That Is The White Between The Ink: Interview of Alice Fulton by Linden Ontjes at the Josephine Miles House, Berkeley, CA 11/20/04"...
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Alice Fulton page at the Academy of American Poets site - The world premiere of "Mail" based on a poem by Alice Fulton - "Fix" from the Atlantic Monthly,...
www.poemhunter.com /alice-fulton/poet-19730   (246 words)

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