• ISBN13: 9780857420916
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 64
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 159 grams

About the Book 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. "Fuller's work is engaging on a deep level like only the great works are. D]efinitely one of the best books that I have come across lately and is one that should be on any reader's shelf."--William Allegrezza on Watchword