Bob Grumman, a mathy poet whose work has appeared in this blog (21 June 2010) and a blogger, has recently been invited to write a Guest Blog for Scientific American. Here is a wonderful sentence about poetry that I have taken from his posting on 22 September 2012 (the third of his guest postings).
And I claim that nothing is more important for a poet
than finding new ways to surprise people with the familiar.
Visit Grumman's Guest Blog to find his illustrations of poetic surprise; after a pair of visual poems, ten x ten and Ellipsonnet, he discusses a poem by Louis Zukovsky in which the poet describes his poetics using the integral sign from calculus:
∫
Zukovsky's definite integral (which Grumman tells us is carefully copyright-protected) has the lower limit "speech" and upper limit "music."
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