{"product_id":"9781555972868","title":"Feeling as a Foreign Language : The Good Strangeness of Poetry","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFeeling as a Foreign Language\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Alice Fulton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFeeling as a Foreign Language\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet and critic Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed. How does poetry create feeling? What are fractal poetics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of provocative, beautifully written essays concerning \"the good strangeness of poetry,\" Fulton contemplates the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome, the aesthetics of complexity theory, and the need for \"cultural incorrectness.\" She also meditates on electronic, biological, and linguistic screens; falls in love with an outrageous 17th-century poet; argues for a Dickinsonian tradition in American letters; and calls for a courageous poetics of \"inconvenient knowledge.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eContents\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreamble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHead Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScreens: An Alchemical Scrapbook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Poetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubversive Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Kangaroo among the Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Praxis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeed Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Organize a Waterfall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Penchants\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Canon for Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Poets in Pursuit of America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMain Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eri0\u003cbr\u003eVI. Premises\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tongue as a Muscle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fractal, electric, Fulton lands the crackle of the thinking sensibility onto the page. Reading these essays, we see poetry in a new way, its flings and intuitions subject to a most exacting sort of calibration. Here is a book not just for poets, but for all thinking readers.” —\u003ci\u003eSven Birkerts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“These deeply satisfying essays turn issues of form and content inside out, refusing old dichotomies and familiar answers. Alice Fulton points toward just how rich and strange postmodern poetry really is, or might be: something perennially surprising, uncharted, an art as slippery, fresh, and difficult as American experience now. This engaging book will delight and challenge readers of poetry, but it also offers serious pleasure to anyone who loves language.” —\u003ci\u003eMark Doty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555972868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593380049102,"sku":"9781555972868","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_50d09ef3-c6f9-488f-b07a-4afe482774a4.jpg?v=1637787302","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555972868","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}