Showing posts with label two. Show all posts
Showing posts with label two. Show all posts
Friday, April 25, 2014

Too many selves

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In my childhood home, numbers were used with care and precision.  There would be teasing when I would use the adverb "too" --- as ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Long division is difficult . . .

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Last Monday included a visit with old friends of whom I see too little, Silver Spring artist Mark Behme -- with whom I did some art-poetry ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

A poem with two numbers

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My friend Carol Ann Heckman has studied with Denise Levertov and feeds voraciously on her work.  For many years I have loved Levertov'...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Variations of a line

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In mathematics a line plays many roles -- as in this fine poem (which is a sonnet, more or less).      Lines      by Martha Collins     ...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Little Infinite Poem

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   Little Infinite Poem        by  Federico Garcia Lorca                For Luis Cardoza y Aragón       To take the wrong road    is t...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Counting on things -- a prose poem

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Russell Edson is one of the contemporary masters of the prose poem (a poem whose words are organized into paragraphs rather than stanzas)....
Monday, October 4, 2010

"The Reckoning" by M. Sorescu (Romania,1936-96)

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Works by poet and playwright   Marin Sorescu (1936-1996) continue to be popular with Romanian readers--and he is one of the most-frequently...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

A wedding song -- shaped by mathematics

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This posting includes a stanza from of "A Wedding on Earth" by Annie Finch .  In the poet's words: the poem has 11 stanzas wit...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Poets who Count

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For some poets, counting is part of the language of the poem. For others, counting determines the structure. Here are two poems of the forme...
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

In the same family -- a poet and a mathematician

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When a poet and a mathematician are members of the same family, understandings result.  Ohio poet Cathryn Essinger is a twin of a mathemati...