Exiled Romanian poet Nina Cassian (1924-2014) spoke with a daring and imaginative voice that I have much admired. And she occasionally used mathematical imagery in her work -- as in the following poem:
Controversy by Nina Cassian
(translated from Romanian by William Jay Smith)
I wrote a poem, an oblique poem,
a kind of calligram, I mean.
Someone said it was an equation
being solved behind a screen.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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