Helena Van Praet is an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow in Dutch and Comparative Literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and co-editor of Anne Carson and the Unknown (forthcoming). Her work has been published in journals such as Textual Practice and Poetics Today.

This is a detailed study of two significant poets that explores the interface between cognitive poetics and embodied cognition in both the reading and writing process. The book centres on what poetry thinks and knows within the current debate around knowledge worlds. Highly recommended.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of Translations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reaching for 'Something Else than the Facts'1. Embodiment as Formal Reading Process 2. Embodiment as Sensory Reading Process 3. Embodiment as Somatic Reading Process Conclusion: Embodied Knowledge Worlds Works Cited Index

Helena Van Praet is an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow in Dutch and Comparative Literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and co-editor of Anne Carson and the Unknown (forthcoming). Her work has been published in journals such as Textual Practice and Poetics Today.

This is a detailed study of two significant poets that explores the interface between cognitive poetics and embodied cognition in both the reading and writing process. The book centres on what poetry thinks and knows within the current debate around knowledge worlds. Highly recommended.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of Translations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reaching for 'Something Else than the Facts'1. Embodiment as Formal Reading Process 2. Embodiment as Sensory Reading Process 3. Embodiment as Somatic Reading Process Conclusion: Embodied Knowledge Worlds Works Cited Index

Helena Van Praet is an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow in Dutch and Comparative Literature at Ghent University, Belgium, and co-editor of Anne Carson and the Unknown (forthcoming). Her work has been published in journals such as Textual Practice and Poetics Today.

This is a detailed study of two significant poets that explores the interface between cognitive poetics and embodied cognition in both the reading and writing process. The book centres on what poetry thinks and knows within the current debate around knowledge worlds. Highly recommended.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Translations List of Translations List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reaching for 'Something Else than the Facts'1. Embodiment as Formal Reading Process 2. Embodiment as Sensory Reading Process 3. Embodiment as Somatic Reading Process Conclusion: Embodied Knowledge Worlds Works Cited Index