Poet and painter and literary theorist Paul Hartal was born in Hungary, with higher-education experiences in Israel and the U.S. -- and is now a long-term Canadian. Recently Hartal contacted me to share a couple of his poems that involved mathematical topics -- and I offer one of these below, "Crisscrossing Infinity." Hartal's poem refers to a war memorial constructed using the pattern that first appeared in the sculpture "Endless Column" by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and is on display at New York's MA, Museum of Modern Art.
Crisscrossing Infinity by Paul Hartal
In the city of Targu Jiu, Romania,an abstract sculpture rises
30 meters high.
It is made of 15 zinc and cast iron
rhomboidal modules
(plus a half unit).
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