Sensual Math: Poems | 
 enlarge | Author: Alice Fulton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 526176
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0393314456
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780393314458
Publication Date: April 1, 1995
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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.
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 I loved this book. I highly recommend it. October 25, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It seems like Alice Fulton can bring anything into a poem and make it work. In these poems, for example, there's Elvis Presley, faked orgasms, TV-reruns. But she's not just grabbing images from popular culture to make the poems accessible - she's using them, it seems to me, because they're as much a part of our world, our ways of knowing and feeling, as classical myths, which are also here. (See her fantastic reinterpretation of Daphne and Apollo in the sequence called "Give:") And what's as wonderful to me is the lushness of these poems, the extravagance of language, the way Fulton builds up these crystal-like surfaces from line to line or stanza to stanza and makes them tilt, twist, dance. Alice Fulton's poems are exciting!
Brilliant, shimmering, funky and fantastic September 30, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Sensual Math is an exquisite book. Alice Fulton's love affair with language is thrilling; it's also important. Sensual Math can make you believe (again) in the power of every syllable, and not to "capture" or "master" experience, but to give ourselves up to the hearbeat of the world.
Poem Envy July 29, 2004
Barry Shiner (Los Angeles, CA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read this book after I looked at a list by Matthew Boroson, "humbly amazed." It's a great list, a course in wonder, as he calls it. Of the contemporary poets he recommends, Alice Fulton is the most fearless, and for my money, the best. Who else would begin a poem: "Is beige a castrate of copper, pink, and taste?" ("Fuzzy Feelings") She's wild, but her work is not obscure. Gender-bending, Elvis (!), lace, particle physics... it's all here folks, and never said more richly. I guess the highest praise I can offer is to say that I wish I'd written this book. Yup, I have poem envy. I highly recommend this book.
Maybe I'm not qualified, but I'll still speak my peace August 6, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Let's preface this review with an explanation -- I'm not an intellectual, and if it wasn't for my perverse sense of humor mixed with my young ambition to take as many courses in mathematics as possible, I would probably never have picked this book up off of a friend of mine's shelf.That being said, I did pick it up. I opened it, and I had to read the first poem three or four times to make sure it was really as good as I thought. Then I moved on to the next, and the next. Long story short, I bugged the book's owner so much, now the book is mine. I have been thouroughly impressed with each successive poem. Since this (poetry) is not my usual thing, I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe this book. It appealled to me, a (then) computer science and anthropology double major, and it appealed to my friend, who got his doctorate in literature. Bottom line: No matter who you are, buy this book.
 A great read: Yes. Dickinson: No. February 28, 2006
T. Combs (Anchorage, AK United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title to my review pretty much sums it up. 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. As poet Li-Young Lee once observed about Emily Dickinson, "you could spend a life time unpacking the meaning from her poems." Fulton is good, but she isn't THAT good!
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