Felt (Magill’s Literary Annual 2002)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Fulton
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Virginity or virgins, Priests, Church schools, Snow, Colors, Touch
The first thing that strikes any reader new to Alice Fulton’s poetry is the authority of her rhythm. Almost brazenly, the power of her line announces that neither rhyme nor formal meter are necessary to the energetic progress of her chant—and it is a chant, a strange halting music than never blurs or gasps for breath. The pauses and caesuras are brilliantly placed and give the impression that a never-ceasing voice, relentless and sure, has all the force it needs to carry ideas and impressions as far as they dare to go. Enjambment (run-on lines) often threatens to turn poetry into...
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