<div>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?<br><br>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."<br><br><b><u>Contents</u></b><br><br>Preamble<br><br>I. Process<br><i>Head Notes, Heart Notes, Base Notes</i><br><br>Screens: An Alchemical Scrapbook<br><br>II. Poetics<br><i>Subversive Pleasures</i><br><br>Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse: Singing the Body Eclectic<br><br>Fractal Amplifications: Writing in Three Dimensions<br><br>III. Powers<br><i>The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty</i><br><br>Unordinary Passions: Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle<br><br>Her Moment of Brocade: The Reconstruction of Emily Dickinson<br><br>IV. Praxis<br><i>Seed Ink</i><br><br>To Organize a Waterfall<br><br>V. Penchants<br><i>A Canon for Infidels</i><br><br>Three Poets in Pursuit of America<br><br>The State of the Art<br><br>Main Things<br><br>ri0<br>VI. Premises<br><i>The Tongue as a Muscle</i><br><br>A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge<br></div>