num_pages: 320
description: In Feeling as a Foreign Language , 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? In 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." Contents Preamble I. ProcessHead Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes An Alchemical Scrapbook II. PoeticsSubversive Pleasures Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Singing the Body Eclectic Fractal Writing in Three Dimensions III. PowersThe Only Kangaroo among the Beauty Unordinary Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle Her Moment of The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson IV. PraxisSeed Ink To Organize a Waterfall V. PenchantsA Canon for Infidels Three Poets in Pursuit of America The State of the Art Main Things ri0VI. PremisesThe Tongue as a Muscle A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge
language: English
title: Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
titlecomplete: Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
genres: Writing, Poetry, Nonfiction, Essays, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 83
publisher: Graywolf Press