{"product_id":"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\u003e\u003cu\u003eContents\u003c\/u\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055452635376,"sku":"9781555972868","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555972868_p0.jpg?v=1763755992","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555972868","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}