Showing posts with label permutation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label permutation. Show all posts
Thursday, January 18, 2018

OULIPO, Mathews -- and permutations of proverbs

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     Harry Mathews (1930-2017) was a writer -- novelist, poet, essayist, and translator --whose work interests me a great deal.  He was the...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Using a Fano plane to create a poem

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     South Dakota mathematician Daniel May enjoys finding connections between his discipline and other arts -- and herein we consider a con...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Extraneous -- and so on

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     Since my junior high math days, when I first heard the word "extraneous," I have loved the sound of it, the feel of my mouth ...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Mathews retells Dowland (with permutations)

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 In my post for 6 September 2013 I presented Oulipian Harry Mathews ' poem "Multiple Choice" -- a poem whose alternative stor...
Monday, September 30, 2013

Splendid Wake project

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On Wednesday, September 25, more than one hundred poets met at the George Washington University Gelman Library's Special Collection Conf...
Monday, June 10, 2013

A sestina from Rudyard Kipling

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My father died many years ago, when I was still a young girl, and I have few possessions that were once his.  One is The First Jungle Book ,...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Many Worlds, in a Pantoum

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Permutations of lines and rhymes play with sound and meaning in ways that enhance both.  I particularly like the pantoum form. Hearing eac...
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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Rearranging words

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After posting, on November 15 , three stanzas by Darby Larson -- three of the more than six quadrillion stanzas that result from arrangement...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

A permutation puzzle -- the sestina

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In a sestina, line-ending words are repeated in six six-line stanzas in a designated permutation of the words; the thirty-nine-line poem end...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Rearranging words . . .

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     If we count all possible arrangements of 18 words, the total number of these is 18! (18-factorial) and equal to 6,402,373,705,728,000 -...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Surprise me!

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Bob Grumman , a mathy poet whose work has appeared in this blog ( 21 June 2010 ) and a blogger , has recently been invited to write a Guest ...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

A septina ("Safety in Numbers") -- and variations

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Recall that a sestina is a 39 line poem of six 6-line stanzas followed by a 3-line stanza.  The 6-line stanzas have lines that end in the ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Permutations and Centos

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A Cento is a collage poem made of lines taken from other poems -- such as a sonnet composed of lines from fourteen of Millay's sonnets, ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Poems with permutations

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     Below, in the  May 16 posting, this blog considered all of the permutations of a few words -- in search of "the best" arrang...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Which is the BEST order?

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At Bartleby.com , we find  a quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) which says, in part " ... poetry—the best words in their b...
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Monday, January 3, 2011

New poems from old -- by permutation

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     One of the founding members of the Oulipo , Jean Lescure (1912-2005), devised categories of permutations of selected words of a poem t...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Syllable-Sestina -- a square permutation poem

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Some poetry is " free verse " but many poems are crafted by following some sort of form or constraint--they might be sonnets or ba...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Celebrate Constraints -- Happy Birthday, OULIPO

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Patrick Bahls and Richard Chess of the University of North Carolina at Ashville have organized a " Conference on Constrained Poetry &...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Prisoner's Dilemma -- and permutations

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In game theory's original, single-play, Prisoner's Dilemma problem, two prisoners each are given the choice between silence and bet...