Alice Fulton

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Full Name	Alice Fulton
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Jan 25, 1952(1952-01-25)
Age	72
Birthplace	Troy
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Alice Fulton Biography

Alice Fulton is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on January 25, 1952 in Troy, United States. Alice Fulton (born 1952) is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Physicist Karen Barad’s book, Meeting the Universe Halfway, takes its title from Alice Fulton’s poem “Cascade Experiment,” first published in 1989. Gabriel Mckee, comments that the poem “contains this compelling passage:

Reviewing Powers Of Congress in 1991, Eavan Boland was the first to liken Fulton to Emily Dickinson. With the 1995 publication of Sensual Math, Publishers Weekly suggested “[Fulton] may be Dickinson’s postmodern heir.” Critic and Dickinson scholar Cristanne Miller further expounded on similarities between Dickinson and Fulton: “Like Dickinson, Fulton crosses the boundaries of popular and highly experimental genres of poetry writing … Even in long poems and sequences of poems, Fulton’s verse has the tight constructedness and multiple layered qualities of Dickinson’s poetry … Fulton shares Dickinson’s outrageous sense of play with both cultural icons and aspects of English normally taken for granted.” Miller also has pointed to Fulton’s kinship with Dickinson in the use of end-of-line syntactic doubling, and was the first critic to note similarities in punctuation.

Fulton elaborated on her conceptualization of fractal verse in her 1996 essay, “Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions,” in which she posits a “poem plane,” a concept analogous to the picture plane in painting. She suggests that “By juxtaposing transparent with textured passages, fractal poetry constructs a linguistic screen that alternately dissolves and clouds.” This later fractal essay shows evidence of her conversations with Holland on the subject of complexity. Fulton has stated that John H. Holland’s work in complexity theory “greatly affected my poetics in the nineties.” A full description of Fractal Verse is beyond the scope of this article; both of the seminal essays are reprinted in Fulton’s prose collection. A third essay titled “Fractal Poetics: Adaptation and Complexity” was published in 2005 in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (UK) with this summary:

Fulton first proposed her ideas for a new poetics based on the concepts of fractals and emergent patterns in her 1986 essay, “Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic,” in which she uses the term “fractal” to suggest “a way to think about the hidden structures of free verse.” Tigerlily states that Fulton “coined the phrase ‘fractal poetry’ as a method of revisioning the value of both formal and free verse, calling the ‘poetry of irregular form fractal verse.'” Some critics have taken Fulton to task for an inexact usage of “fractal.” Other critics have countered that her use of “fractal” is more metaphorical than literal. Susan Duhig in the Chicago Tribune noted that “For Fulton, the fractal serves as a potent metaphor for a poetry with a form that exists somewhere between utter shapelessness and the Euclidean order of regular meter and genre, a poetry whose volatile, irregular patterning exists on the threshold of structure.” Duhig concluded that Fulton’s essays explicate “one possible language for understanding poetry in the age of quantum mechanics.” Biogeneticist Ana Marti-Subirana writes at length and with specificity on how “Chaos theory and fractal poetics allow Fulton to analyze the complexity of social structures and cultural constructions through new perspectives in poetic form.” Fulton’s fractal poetics operates “as a means to engage both the poet and the reader of poetry into an intellectual immersion beyond the obvious.”

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Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school. In 1979 she attended a women’s poetry conference in Amherst, Mass., which she would later cite as a formative experience. While an undergraduate, she received competitive scholarships to study poetry with Thomas Lux at The Writers Community in New York City. In 1980 she married Hank De Leo and moved to Ithaca, New York, to study poetry under A. R. Ammons, Phyllis Janowitz, Kenneth McClane, and Robert Morgan in Cornell University’s Creative Writing Program. While at Cornell, her first book was selected by W. D. Snodgrass for the Associated Writing Program’s publication prize. After receiving her MFA, she was a fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 1983 Fulton moved to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a three-year appointment as Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Mark Strand selected Fulton’s second book, Palladium, for publication in the 1985 National Poetry Series. In the interdisciplinary Society of Fellows she further developed her interest in using scientific metaphor and began her lifelong friendship with John H. Holland. She has often cited Holland’s writing on Complex Adaptive Systems as being instrumental in the development of her theory on Fractal Poetics [see Fulton’s prose collection]. It was also where she met the composers William Bolcom and Enid Sutherland. In 1991 Fulton was awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship.

In the 1980s, American poets argued over the validity of free verse. One vocal faction claimed that vers libre was formless and lacking in the devices of poetry. In this context I elaborated a poetics I called ‘fractal poetry’. Over the last twenty years this poetics has evolved through engagement with complexity studies that provide ways of understanding irregular, chaotic or turbulent systems. The writings of John H. Holland offer examples of open, exploratory and inclusive complex adaptive systems that lack a centre, hierarchy or equilibrium. These dynamic examples may be analogous to a sublime poetry with an ongoing plurality of optimum states located among a multiplicity of textures and gestures. This departure from the traditional ‘transcendent lyric ultimate’ suggests a maximalist approach giving equal weight to figure and ground, form and content. Physicist Karen Barad’s conceptualisation of ‘agential realism’ provides added dimension to fractal poetics by offering a model for locating meaning in the space between traditional dualisms.

Harvard mathematician Barry Mazur has written about Fulton’s poetics and its relation to the “science of connections bridging differences.” Mazur claims that Fulton engages with mathematics as the “science of the subtle glues … that bind different ideas together, and yet keep them distinguished.” He noted that “The very connectors themselves come out into the open in the poem entitled ‘= =.’ ” Sensual Math contains a number of poems that deploy and define her “bride sign.” As with all of Fulton’s books, including her fiction and nonfiction prose, Sensual Math is a carefully constructed web of interrelated parts that form an organic whole. One critic predicted that “Sensual Math might well come to be seen as one of the most significant volumes of the 1990s.”

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“The poem is a wonderful combination of science and faith, and finds mystery in empiricism.” Mckee continues, saying that the poem reminds him “of the 14th-century mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing, the title of which offers perhaps the most famous illustration of apophatic theology … Fulton’s poem makes an eloquent and moving case for science that seeks the unknowable, the unbelievable, and the impossible.”

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Miller goes on to say, “For both poets, this interest in hinges, in connections, in incongruities and contiguities reveals itself in verbal and syntactical structures as well as in themes. In short, while these are poets of big ideas, they also are very much poets of language … Like Dickinson, Fulton makes us see the pomposity, ridiculousness, and fragility of our beliefs, hopes, and attitudes as well as the sometimes terrible wonder of human interaction and the universe beyond ourselves.” In addition to Dickinson’s influence, Mark Jarman and Cristanne Miller have noted the influence of Marianne Moore. Rita Dove has written that “Nabokov is one of Alice Fulton’s literary mentors: The sheer delight in language’s subterfuges, the knotty avenues of recollections and desire, the human need for ‘significance’ that forms narratives even where there are none — these themes are the very bone and gristle of Fulton’s prodigal, energetic poetry.”