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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <i>Feeling as a Foreign Language</i>, 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?</p><p>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 "inconvenient knowledge."</p><p><b>Contents</b></p><p>Preamble</p><p>I. Process<br><i>Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes</i></p><p>Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook</p><p>II. Poetics<br><i>Subversive Pleasures</i></p><p>Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic</p><p>Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions</p><p>III. Powers<br><i>The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty</i></p><p>Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle</p><p>Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson</p><p>IV. Praxis<br><i>Seed Ink</i></p><p>To Organize a Waterfall</p><p>V. Penchants<br><i>A Canon for Infidels</i></p><p>Three Poets in Pursuit of America</p><p>The State of the Art</p><p>Main Things</p><p>ri0<br>VI. Premises<br><i>The Tongue as a Muscle</i></p><p>A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Fractal, electric, Fulton lands the crackle of the thinking sensibility onto the page. Reading these essays, we see poetry in a new way, its flings and intuitions subject to a most exacting sort of calibration. Here is a book not just for poets, but for all thinking readers." --<i>Sven Birkerts</i></p><p>"These deeply satisfying essays turn issues of form and content inside out, refusing old dichotomies and familiar answers. Alice Fulton points toward just how rich and strange postmodern poetry really is, or might be: something perennially surprising, uncharted, an art as slippery, fresh, and difficult as American experience now. This engaging book will delight and challenge readers of poetry, but it also offers serious pleasure to anyone who loves language." --<i>Mark Doty</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Alice Fulton</b> is the author of the poetry collections <i>Sensual Math</i>, <i>Powers of Congress</i>, <i>Palladium</i>, and <i>Dance Script With Electric Ballerina</i>. She has received several major honors, including MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and is currently Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.</p>

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