Friday, September 13, 2019

"Creation Myth on a Moebius Band"

Found at this site, several MINIMS -- brief,thought-provoking poems by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991).  This one deftly uses the mathematical Moebius Band:

           Creation Myth on a Moebius Band    by Howard Nemerov

           This world’s just mad enough to have been made
          By the Being His beings into Being prayed.

This poet frequently used mathematics in his poems.  Here is a link to previous Nemerov postings in this blog.
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5 comments:

  1. John GoldenSeptember 13, 2019 at 1:10 PM

    Thanks for getting me reading Nemerov. Adam and Eve in Later Life is amazing. Is Minim his own term? I can't find rules for it anywhere.

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    1. John GoldenSeptember 13, 2019 at 1:14 PM

      Also Figures of Thought... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=33168 for another amazing math poem.

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    2. JoAnne GrowneySeptember 13, 2019 at 1:22 PM

      My own speculation is that the term MINIM is Nemerov's invention -- but I have not researched the term.

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    3. JoAnne GrowneySeptember 13, 2019 at 1:27 PM

      "Figures of Thought" by Nemerov is also part of an anthology of math poems -- "Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics" -- and available at Amazon and lots of other booksellers.

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    4. John GoldenSeptember 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM

      on my wishlist. I definitely should have noticed this before.

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