Recently I have been musing over the question, "Is a poem like a theorem?" Enriching my thinking has been a poem by Canadian-American poet Mark Strand (1934-2014), "The New Poetry Handbook." I
enjoyed the thought-stimulation that Strand's poem gave me and, as I
read and reread, I explored changing the gender AND replacing "poem" by
"theorem. Not always perfectly sensible BUT thought-provoking!
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| Strand's complete poem of 21 stanzas is available at this link. |
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