Quorum

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Quorum , the latest book from William Fuller, is a collection of vivid detours and deadpan visions arranged into forty-five sonnet-like poems. Employing an ear "that hears not what the eye / sees not, in detail," the poet makes his rounds through a menagerie of abstract persons and personified abstractions, carefully feeding them "their weight in flowers," to achieve the idiosyncratic consistency of a world transected by allusive filaments of "clouds that don't exist." Metaphysical wit freezes up the system and then gives it a liquidity. But "there's a trace of something else that slips in," which the poet seems at pains to not identify. If it's not quite song, neither is it simply irony, nor is it a desire to exceed these, although all are required to make a quorum.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Plastic Nature
• Accrued Fallacy
• All Times Imperfect
• Fandango
• The Lecture of the Sheep
• Order
• Phronesis
• The Commentary Begins
• Consensual Dissolution
• The Sixth Door
• Previously Published
• Beyond the Softened Stance
• Inchoate Remainder
• Puyana
• Quorum
• 2 Hecatompylos
• (I am the) Gorgon
• Set Me Free
• Other Ethics
• Waywardness
• White Sky
• New Garden
• Do So Personally
• Evening Dies Insane
• Affable Speech
• R
• Ride On
• Bolero
• Absenteeism
• Power Of Appointment
• 3 The Other Campground
• The Foregone
• Time Study
• Planetary Shade
• Phases of the Sun
• Moderation
• Equitization
• Woodland Bop
• John Willard
• Estray Book
• Snake Hood
• Lefèvre d'Étaples
• Marcel Tjahe
• Magic Hill
• The Lost Community Sutta