Coloratura on a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems: Poems

by Alice Fulton

Book Overview

"I was living in a high-maintenance loneliness," Alice Fulton writes of a devastating accident, and her poems express both reverence and impatience as they search for a brightness palpable as the dark. The result is a brilliant coloratura on the senses. Fulton evokes phantom aromas of vanished perfumes, flowers fragrant only at night, and the ozone scent of snow; marvels at velvet paintings and chimerical colors outside the spectrum; and riffs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324074698
• ISBN13: 9781324074694
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.1"