Reviews of Feeling as a Foreign Language

“Fulton’s collection works as an invocation to poets to find their voices within a ‘poetry of unnatural acts,’ to embrace dichotomies of uncertainty and tension; at the same time Feeling as a Foreign Language provokes readers to examine closely a range of works that might otherwise be discarded as formless and to seek their inner patterns of dynamic structure.” —Georgia Review

“Long considered one of our best poets, Fulton emerges here as one of our best critics as well: erudite, sensible…and wonderfully readable.” —Rain Taxi Review of Books

“Fulton’s highly textured language and complex original insights bring to light many shadowy topics in contemporary poetry.  These essays will raise the roof and open the windows, whatever your school house of poetic thought.” —ForeWord
 

Praise from writers:
"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.” —Mark Doty

“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.” —Sven Birkerts