Feeling as a Foreign Language

by 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1555972861

ISBN13:9781555972868

Release Date:March 1999

Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Length:320 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Poetry

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