Feeling as a Foreign Language The Good Strangeness of Poetry

Name: Feeling as a Foreign Language The Good Strangeness of Poetry
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ISBN: 9781555972868

ISBN-10: 1555972861

ISBN-13: 9781555972868

Edition: 1999

Authors: Alice Fulton

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In Feeling as a Foreign Language, 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? In 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…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Alice Fulton's honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University and lives in Ithaca, New York.



Preamble



Process: Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes


Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook



Poetics: Subversive Pleasures


Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic


Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions



Powers: The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty


Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle


Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson



Praxis: Seed Ink


To Organize a Waterfall



Penchants: A Canon for Infidels


Three Poets in Pursuit of America


The State of the Art


Main Things



Premises: The Tongue as a Muscle


A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge