Isbn: 9780393037500 - sensual math: poems (19 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Good. 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 the sequence called My Last TV Campaign, an advertising executive tries to apply the successful imitative strategies of nature to a context of consumerism. By reimagining the myth of Daphne and Apollo, another sequence dismantles attitudes surrounding rape and the ancient association of woman with nature and man with culture. Daphne becomes a composite of Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Emily Dickinson, and Marianne Moore. A major work by a poet who has been called breathtakingly fluent, blessedly unpredictable, Sensual Math figures the world as a blend of Zen and Elvis, calculus and honey. The final triumph is that poems so profound can be so profoundly engaging.…

Condición: Very Good. 1s. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. 1s. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardback. Condición: Good. 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 the sequence called My Last TV Campaign, an advertising executive tries to apply the successful imitative strategies of nature to a context of consumerism. By reimagining the myth of Daphne and Apollo, another sequence dismantles attitudes surrounding rape and the ancient association of woman with nature and man with culture. Daphne becomes a composite of Amelia Earhart, Annie Oakley, Emily Dickinson, and Marianne Moore. A major work by a poet who has been called breathtakingly fluent, blessedly unpredictable, Sensual Math figures the world as a blend of Zen and Elvis, calculus and honey. The final triumph is that poems so profound can be so profoundly engaging.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Binding Tight Pages Clean Light Edge Wear. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Condición: Very good. First Edition. First edition (simultaneous with hardcover) of Fulton's fourth collection of verse. "These brilliant riffs and startling cascades make sublime sense of contemporary speech." 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Mild wear at corners and traces of edgewear. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. 113pp.…

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. SIGNED & inscribed by Author. fine/near fine DJ Free of any markings and no writing. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 113 pages. Fulton's fourth collection of poems. A clean near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some slight crimping to the rear panel near the spine. Signed by Fulton on the title page. Signed.

hardcover. Condición: Like New. Like New. Flat signed by the author on the title page. Also signed on half title page, dated with inscription to well known local poet, Crisp, unread copy. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. 113 [4]pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. First edition. ISBN 0393037509. ISBN13 9780393037500. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good to Near Fine condition book in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book, except for author's signature on title page and inscription "To X with thanks for your generous presence today. Shine on-Alice April 1996 Port Townnsend" on half-title page. $17.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.