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* Alice Fulton, Sensual Math (New York: W. W. Norton & Company) 1995, 113 pp.
The language of advertising, TV and mass culture play a still more prominent role in the writing of Alice Fulton. In this, her poetics is visibly more advanced man generally becomes the mainstream - which may lead one to suspect that perhaps even tamer sensibilities have been hip to specific developments in the North American avant-garde over the last fifteen years - and perhaps for this reason Sensual Math is not entirely devoid of interest.
In "My Last TV Campaign: A Sequence" - especially the section entitled "Vanishing Cream," in which a martini buzz is equated to, and additionally blurred by, the incoherent discourse of broadcasting - Fulton splices the sexploitation underlying the promises of cocktail...