Feeling as a foreign language
Subtitle: the good strangeness of poetry
By: Alice Fulton.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Fulton, Alice, 1952-  -- Aesthetics.; Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Emotions in literature.; Women and literature.; Poetics.; Poetry.
Description: In Feeling as a Foreign Language, Alice Fulton considers poetry's uncanny ability to access and recreate emotions so wayward they go unnamed.

Fulton contemplates topics ranging from the intricacies of a rare genetic syndrome to fractals from the aesthetics of complexity theory to the need for "cultural incorrectness." Along the way, she 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.