Alice Fulton
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Felt: Poems
Alice Fulton
In this groundbreaking collection, Alice Fulton weds her celebrated linguistic freshness to a fierce emotional depth. Felt—a fabric made of tangled fibers—becomes a metaphor for the interweavings of humans, animals, and planet. But Felt is also the past tense of “feel.” This is a book of emotions both ordinary and untoward: the shadings of humiliation, obsession, love, and loneliness—as well as states so subtle they have yet to be named.
Reticent and passionate, elliptical yet avaiable, Fulton’s poems consider flaws and failure, touching and not touching. They…
