Dance Script With Electric Ballerina: POEMS [Paperback]

Alice Fulton (Author)

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Agonist Of The Acceleration Lane
Agoraphobia
All Blankets Should Be White
Anchors Of Light
Bad Actor
Between The Apple And The Stars
The Bundled-well-hung-up-tight-don't- %put-that-in Your
Chance Music
Classified
Dance Script With Electric Ballerina
The Death Of Birds
Diminuendo
Forcing White Lilacs
From Our Mary To Me
The Gone Years
The Great Aunts Of My Childhood
How To Swing Those Obbligatos Around
In The Beginning
Life Above The Permafrost
My Diamond Stud
Needfire, This Low Heaven
The Perpetual Light
Picture Planes 2. His Acid Glory
Picture Planes 3. Painting Masterpieces: A Fish Story
Picture Planes 4. Holding In A World
Picture Planes L. Impositions On The Third Dimension
Reeling Back The Saffron
Rose Fever
Second-sight
Snow-kiln
Sympathetic Hexes
Toward Clairvoyance
Two Cries & A Clutch
What I Like
You Can't Rhumboogie In A Ball And Chain
Your Card Read Poet-mechanic
Yours & Mine
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press (August 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 025206576X
• ISBN-13: 978-0252065767
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,596,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alice Fulton's first fiction collection, The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories, was published by W.W. Norton in 2008. Her most recent book of poems is Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems. Felt was awarded the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. This biennial poetry prize is given on behalf of the nation in recognition of the most distinguished book of poetry written by an American and published during the preceding two years. Felt also was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001 and as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.

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, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in five editions of The Best American Poetry series and in the 10th Anniversary edition, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997. She has received Pushcart Prizes in poetry and in fiction, the Bess Hokin award from Poetry, The Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, and the Emily Dickinson and Consuelo Ford Awards from the Poetry Society of America. Poems and Fiction also have appeared in Tin House, Poetry, The New Yorker, Parnassus, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, and many other magazines.

Alice Fulton's ten stories have been collected in The Nightingales of Troy. Two of these stories, "A Shadow Table" and "Queen Wintergreen," have been selected by Alice Sebold and Louise Erdrich for the Best American Short Stories. "Happy Dust," was awarded the Editor's Prize in Fiction by The Missouri Review. "The Real Eleanor Rigby," was selected for the Pushcart Prize XXIX anthology. And "Queen Wintergreen" was also anthologized in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish Women's Writing. The Nightingales of Troy was a New & Recommended selection by The Boston Globe; a Discoveries feature by The Los Angeles Times; and a Featured Books interview in The Irish Times. For extensive excerpts from published reviews, please visit alicefulton.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-watering performance, February 8, 2001

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This review is from: Dance Script With Electric Ballerina: POEMS (Paperback)

How does one convey the sense of what it means to write poetry? Read "Your Card Read 'Poet-Mechanic'" in this volume to understand the power of Alice Fulton's work. How can one conceivably write a poem about dust? Read "Toward Clairvoyance" to appreciate her brilliance. This book is a work that grabs your instinct and won't let go.