{"product_id":"feeling-as-a-foreign-language","title":"Feeling as a Foreign Language","description":"\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","brand":"Alice Fulton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":68099341516951,"sku":"9781555972868","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_cbd43d65-79c8-48cf-8922-ed0afcec24b2.jpg?v=1792480651","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/feeling-as-a-foreign-language","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}