Sensual Math: Poems

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.

In 1991, Alice Fulton was awarded a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She also has received a Guggenheim fellowship and an Ingram Merrill award. Her other poetry books are "Dance Script with Electric Ballerina," "Palladium," and "Powers of Congress." She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.