Last week master poet Galway Kinnell died (NYTimes obituary). One finds a detailed bio and a baker’s dozen of his best poems at the Poetry Foundation website -- do a search using the poet's name. Many of Kinnell's poems are about nature -- somewhat in the way that mathematics may be about science -- that is, he uses the images of nature to speak multiply of complex issues. Here is a poem about identity that includes several math terms.
The Gray Heron by Galway Kinnell (1927-2014)
It held its head still
while its body and green
legs wobbled in wide arcs
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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