Feeling as a Foreign Language

ISBN-13: 9781555972868 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str.

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 "inconvenient knowledge."ContentsPreambleI. Process
Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base NotesScreens: An Alchemical ScrapbookII. Poetics
Subversive PleasuresOf Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body EclecticFractal Amplifications: Writing in Three DimensionsIII. Powers
The Only Kangaroo among the BeautyUnordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of NewcastleHer Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily DickinsonIV. Praxis
Seed InkTo Organize a WaterfallV. Penchants
A Canon for InfidelsThree Poets in Pursuit of AmericaThe State of the ArtMain Thingsri0
VI. Premises
The Tongue as a MuscleA Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge