{"product_id":"feeling-as-a-foreign-language-paperback","title":"Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Fulton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePreamble \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI. Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHead Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScreens: An Alchemical Scrapbook \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eII. Poetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubversive Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIII. Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Kangaroo among the Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIV. Praxis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeed Ink\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo Organize a Waterfall \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eV. Penchants\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Canon for Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree Poets in Pursuit of America \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe State of the Art \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMain Things \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eri0\u003cbr\u003eVI. Premises\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tongue as a Muscle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Fulton\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eSensual Math\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePowers of Congress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePalladium\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDance Script With Electric Ballerina\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received several major honors, including MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and is currently Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 8.5 x 5.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114091384967,"sku":"9781555972868","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/356171aaabe695dad2ae95b01f230d25.webp?v=1732495455","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/feeling-as-a-foreign-language-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}