{"product_id":"feeling-as-a-foreign-language-alice-fulton-9781555972868","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\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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555972861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555972868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/1999 pg. 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/1999 pg. 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/1999 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/05\/1999 pg. 17","brand":"Alice Fulton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985124819199,"sku":"9781555972868","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dd098c7e-f048-46e1-be88-b11c4106989d.jpg?v=1683275692","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feeling-as-a-foreign-language-alice-fulton-9781555972868","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}