I love the poetry of Gertrude Stein. Perhaps this is so because I have never taken a class in which her work was taught and I have never read it with pressure to "understand." I enjoy reading Stein's poems aloud. Because they keep me alert -- both eye and tongue. Because they puzzle me. And because I sometimes see something amazing, true and almost within reach. Here, from Tender Buttons / Objects: is "A Piece of Coffee."
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Attitudes of Numbers
I like Bruce Snider 's "The Certainty of Numbers" (which you may already have found online at The Poetry Foundation website, featured in the April 14 posting) even though I disagree with the initial attitude toward mathematics expressed by its narrator. Writing a poem can be a voyage of discovery with the narrator's view flexing as the poem progresses.
Snider's poem brings to mind a view of mathematics that repeatedly bothers me: I wonder why some people -- who would not complain about the fixendess of spellings of "cat" or "dog" or "sum" -- dislike mathematics for the so-called rigidity of arithmetic facts such as "2 + 4 = 6." ? ? ?
Snider's poem brings to mind a view of mathematics that repeatedly bothers me: I wonder why some people -- who would not complain about the fixendess of spellings of "cat" or "dog" or "sum" -- dislike mathematics for the so-called rigidity of arithmetic facts such as "2 + 4 = 6." ? ? ?
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