{"product_id":"feeling-as-a-foreign-language-the-good-strangeness-of-poetry-9781555972868","title":"Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry","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\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreamble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Process\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHead Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScreens: An Alchemical Scrapbook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Poetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubversive Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Only Kangaroo among the Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Praxis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeed Ink\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Organize a Waterfall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Penchants\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Canon for Infidels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Poets in Pursuit of America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe State of the Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMain Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eri0\u003cbr\u003eVI. Premises\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tongue as a Muscle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice Fulton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.34w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555972868","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713292308617,"sku":"9781555972868","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0ac024f9-aed2-41dc-ab52-881693bd80e8.jpg?v=1719608161","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/feeling-as-a-foreign-language-the-good-strangeness-of-poetry-9781555972868","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}