One of my recent poetry acquisition treasures is Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, edited by Annie Finch and Alexandra Oliver (Everyman's Lbrary, 2015). From a DC poet and friend, Paul Hopper, a few weeks ago I received comments about one of the sections of this collection -- a section containing stanzas in hendecasyllabics, that is, in 11-syllable lines Hopper has sent a sample quatrain of hendecasyllabics that points to "Into Melody" by Lewis Turco. A bit of mathematical terminology is found in the opening lines of Peter Kline's "Hendecasyllabics for Robert Frost" -- and I offer these samples below.
Hopper's quatrain:
Someone should build a large dodecahedron,
with a poem in hendecasyllabics
on each pentagonal face except the base.
I'd start with this poem by Lewis Turco.
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Saturday, June 27, 2015
Monday, April 18, 2011
Teaching math with a poem
Sarah Glaz is an algebraist (University of Connecticut) who uses poetry to teach mathematics. At her web page, scroll down to "Recent Articles" to see titles and links to three such papers. One of the articles is "The Enigmatic Number e: A History in Verse and its Uses in the Mathematics Classroom" -- and it contains an annotated version of the poem whose opening stanzas are found below; it's found in the Digital Library of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), Loci: Convergence (April 2010).
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Varieties of triangles -- by Guillevic
My introduction to French poet Guillevic (1909-97) came from UK poet Tim Love who found three of his triangle poems translated into Italian. Jacqueline Lapidus translated them for me from French into English, after which I also found Guillevic's collection Geometries (Englished by Richard Sieburth, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) -- with its circles, ellipses, parallels, and so on. And so, beyond these three, there will be more to enjoy later.
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