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Author: William Fuller

William Fuller grew up in Barrington, Illinois, and received his PhD from the University of Virginia in 1983. His most recent books of poetry include DAYBREAK (Flood Editions, 2020), PLAYTIME (Flood Editions, 2015), Quorum, HALLUCINATION (Flood Editions, 2011), WATCHWORLD (Flood Editions, 2006), SADLY (Flood Editions, 2003), THE SUGAR BORDERS (O Books, 1993), and BYT (O Books, 1989). He is Principal Advisor to the trust department at The Northern Trust Company in Chicago.

byt
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byt

O Books

The title refers to the Russian Constructivists. Fuller's writing has a lucid and at the same time hallucinatory quality as if pressing one's/his reciprocal relations to the world so closely that "they" appear spectrally but exactly: "That this act ...

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Daybreak
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Daybreak

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Poetry. The title poem in William Fuller's DAYBREAK begins with something abstract. "At daybreak one saw receptacles from the day before and in those receptacles lay strings of associations." From such associations "eyes emanating soft red light" em...

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Hallucination
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Hallucination

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Poetry. William Fuller's HALLUCINATION negotiates between worlds of the living and the dead, shifting mercurially from verse to prose and from parody to parable. Along the way, Fuller draws our attention to the ineffable qualities of experience, pro...

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Playtime
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Playtime

Flood Editions

Poetry. In PLAYTIME, William Fuller offers dispatches from a strange world. Through deadpan memoranda and dark parables, he addresses uncommon topics from witchcraft to vegetable life. Yet his focus often swerves from recognizable phenomena to the u...

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Sadly
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Sadly

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Poetry. Drawing equally on Buddhist sutras and country blues, William Fuller's SADLY derives compassion from its ironic vision. Quick and sometimes elusive, these poems observe fluctuations in economic markets, the weather, and human consciousness. ...

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The Sugar Borders
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The Sugar Borders

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In THE SUGAR BORDERS, William Fuller creates a flat space of “middles” which is everywhere, “the cave of all.” The viewer is up so close seeing oneself that one’s / its “wet muscles repose there.” As if one hallucinates oneself having a dream, one s...

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Watchword
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Watchword

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Poetry. In WATCHWORD, William Fuller plots the paths of consciousness with sensitivity and precision. Pivoting on what he has elsewhere called "transfer points almost too elusive to name," his poems shift—sometimes mid-word—between languages of comm...

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