Fulton's Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems (2004) is a compilation of poems from her first five collections, including Powers of Congress (1990) and the award-winning Felt (2002). The book offers a great overview of the author's progression from the more simple poems of her early years to the newer and more complex; throughout the collection, Fulton becomes more experimental with language as she digs deeper into her emotional world.

Besides writing poetry, Fulton teaches and writes essays. In Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry (1999), she writes about the poetic process and the various forms of postmodern poetry, and she also examines Emily Dickinson's work. Fulton devotes a section of this book to reflections on her own work.

Emily Dickinson, one of the most celebrated of American poets, is often mentioned in discussions about Fulton. The two poets' works indeed feature...