Intersections -- Poetry with Mathematics

Mathematical language can heighten the imagery of a poem; mathematical structure can deepen its effect. Feast on an international menu of poems made rich by mathematical ingredients -- and gathered here by JoAnne Growney, whose personal website is at https://joannegrowney.com/ .

Showing posts with label power. Show all posts

Showing posts with label power. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

Exponential power

From this week's New Yorker (June 27, 2016) from a poem by Maya Ribault entitled "Society of Butterflies" this mat hy statem...

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Palindromes

Palindromic numbers are not uncommon -- recently (in the July 12 posting ) power-of-eleven palindromes are mentioned. Palindromic p...

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Prove It

After observing that 1 = 1 and 1 + 3 = 4 and 1 + 3 + 5 = 9 and 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16 and ...

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Conversational mathematics

In recent weeks I have been experimenting with poems that use mathematical terminology, wondering whether -- since there are readers who are...

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Circle Power

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle by Black Elk (1863-1950) (translated from Sioux) Everything the P...

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Zero Power

To neutralize the differing effects of any non-zero numbers -- to wipe out vast differences between numbers -- we may raise each of them to ...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Writing poetry like mathematics

In an article about the Chilean mathematician and poet Nicanor Parra , Paul M Pearson says , : "Parra almost wrote poetry like he woul...

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