Recommended Reading: Alice Fulton's Palladium
by Christina Seymour
This book is stunningly obscure. Poem after poem, Fulton invents syntactical combinations that ring true both in their subversive logic and their propulsive sound. My favorite is “Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch” which ends with the beautifully musical “While the sea’s jewels build shells and shells / change to chalk and chalk to loam and gold / wheat grows where oceans teetered.” Fulton’s playfulness and gravity encourage each reader to personalize their reading experience, to choose favorite words, favorite rhythms, and favorite truths.
While perusing the Poetry Foundation website for 60s-80s decade poems—as we are all wont to do—also check out (or revisit) Stephen Dobyns, James Wright, Robert Creeley, Raymond Carver, and H.D.
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