Quorum, the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear â€œthat hears not what

Quorum
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Quorum, the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear â€œthat hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail,â€ the poet makes his rounds through a menagerie of abstract persons and personified abstractions, carefully feeding them â€œtheir weight in flowers,â€ to achieve the idiosyncratic consistency of a world transected by allusive filaments of â€œclouds that donâ€™t exist.â€ Metaphysical wit freezes up the system and then gives it a liquidity. But â€œthereâ€™s a trace of something else that slips in,â€ which the poet seems at pains to not identify. If itâ€™s not quite song, neither is it simply irony, nor is it a desire to exceed these, although all are required to make a quorum.
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"Fullerâ€™s work is engaging on a deep level like only the great works are. [D]efinitely one of the best books that I have come across lately and is one that should be on any readerâ€™s shelf."â€”William Allegrezza on Watchword
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer Seagull Books
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780857420916
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Quorum