which offers perhaps the most famous illustration of apophatic theology ... Fulton's poem makes an eloquent and moving case for science that seeks the unknowable, the unbelievable, and the impossible." Fulton's formal inventions invariably employ "form" in the service of content. She has stated that "During the act of writing, technique and meaning are inextricably linked, and it is only for the convenience of critical discussion that one could wish to separate them. The realization that craft depends on content leads to the concept of organic form and the idea that whatever elements help us experience a poem as a whole can be called its form." In an essay concerned with the body poems of Anne Sexton and Alice Fulton, Deborah Landau asserts that "Fulton's forms often reinforce the discursive claims of her poems." The editors of 20th Century Poetics point to "active enjambments" in Fulton's work "that make words do double duty as different parts of speech." Peter Brier says that Fulton uses enjambment‚ "to sharpen her phrasing, which in turn is remarkably sure and strengthened by the vividness of her imagery." Fulton has stated in interviews that she tries to "think freshly about the why of every line" and how to make "meaning shift at enjambments without the end word in the line changing its part of speech." Another of Fulton's techniques is that "she often refuses to gender her speakers, forcing her readers to reconsider their assumptions about what constitutes male or female identity." Throughout her career, Fulton has juxtaposed references to popular culture with allusions to literary and high culture. Ernest Smith has argued that a "significant theme in Fulton's work is the relationship among the individual, imagination, and culture, both historically constructed aspects of culture and contemporary, popular culture." Smith also comments on Fulton's "polyphonic texture" as "a sense of multiplying resonance akin to the use of counterpoint in music." Awards and honors American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Award MacArthur Fellowship Ingram Merrill Foundation Award Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Michigan Society of Fellows Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Grants in Literature The Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award Bibliography Poetry Collections Coloratura On A Silence Found In Many Expressive Systems: Poems (2022) Barely Composed (2015) Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (2004) Felt (2001) winner of