Title: Feeling as a foreign language
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Aesthetics, Women and literature, Emotions in literature, Poetics, Poetry, Collected works (single author, multi-form), Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed
People: Alice Fulton (1952-), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Margaret Cavendish Newcastle Duchess of (1624?-1674)
LC classification: PS3556.U515 Z465 1999