Poet Laura LeHew offers us "The New Math"-- a "found" poem that features conversations and calculations from call center negotiations to reschedule an airline flight -- posted in April, 2011 by the nonprofit literary arts collective [PANK].
LeHew's poem starts out like this:
The New Math by Laura LeHew
a found poem
Credit for the call center in India
to change your flight to the wrong day,
again
($350.00) USD
Should I admit that I sometimes feel a bit of resentment toward people who are insistently articulate about their difficulties with mathematics? As if that good energy might be turned toward learning the subject they decry.
On the whole, though, it seems better to face the fact that we folks who speak the language of mathematics are the odd ones. Here are perceptive trouble-with-math poems by John Stone (1936-2008), who wrote as a parent trying to help with homework, and Elizabeth Savage,
who compares a pair of differently-able friends.
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