tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post118188034702969002..comments2024-03-06T10:39:37.128+00:00Comments on Tania Writes: Pi and WislawaTania Hershmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-32869901869924758112010-01-06T22:25:19.250+00:002010-01-06T22:25:19.250+00:00No shame, Sue, it's not too late. She is so gr...No shame, Sue, it's not too late. She is so great.<br /><br />Rachel, glad as always to bring something new and inspiring.<br /><br />Tim, thanks so much for posting these - Unix and poetry? I use Linux, must check this out. it all sounds fun. <br /><br />Barbara, once again, I wish I was on commission. Hope you enjoy it, I fell in love with her through her poem, Under One Small Star, I found it so powerful. I think she is an astonishing writer.Tania Hershmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781460794034586895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-640984057323675962010-01-06T10:08:01.243+00:002010-01-06T10:08:01.243+00:00Thanks for the recommendation, I've just bough...Thanks for the recommendation, I've just bought it! Hopefully some great poems to enjoy with my Saturday classes - thanks Tania!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06280161801824435219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-23675427882908746632010-01-06T07:05:57.572+00:002010-01-06T07:05:57.572+00:00I look upon Maths as distinct from "Science&q...I look upon Maths as distinct from "Science", and Poetry+Maths as distinct from Poetry+Science, so it's interesting to see how a real poet handles maths. But to me it only skims maths - it's written by an outsider. If she wrote about bull-fighting in the same way, people would say that she'd never even seen a bull, let alone seen a fight. <br />The outsider's viewpoint is one perspective though, and at least ensures that the poetry audience isn't alienated. <br /><br />It's possible to more intimately fuse the disciplines. Re maths <br /><br>* In the 2002 <a href="http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/winners2002.htm" rel="nofollow">Bridport Poetry comp</a>, Dr Frank Tapiador won a supplementary prize. I seem to recall that the poem had formulae in it (I saw it in the Antho of prizewinners)<br /><br>* Both Peter Howard and I have written poems about e^(i*pi), and I'm sure we're not the only ones. A link to mine is on my <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mariella.gregori/tim/poetry/movies.html" rel="nofollow">movies page</a><br /><br><br />And computing can be given serious treatment too. If you're using Linux/Unix you're in luck!<br /><br>* In "These Days" by Leontia Flynn (New Gen poet) there's a poem with fragments of a computer program - "Perl Poem"<br /><br>* Peter Howard's also published poems about computing. Some (e.g. "68000 Mornings") are <a href="http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/petepoem.htm" rel="nofollow">online</a><br /><br>* In "Digital Poetics", by Loss Pequeno Glazier (University of Alabama Press, 2002), the author gets rather excited about the poetic potential of Unix - "[Unix] can also be seen as highly poetic, employing sparse, condensed syntax for powerful effects. ... It offers possibilities for conceptualising space that are compelling ... These and many similar features suggest that UNIX is a system with intensely compelling poetic features"<br /><br> I've only recent found <a href="http://zhivago.gtrlabs.org/" rel="nofollow">The periodic table as assembled by Dr. Zhivago, oculist</a> - a collaboration between a writer and a computer programmer. Fun, in a way.Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-46729943469941386132010-01-05T22:03:55.475+00:002010-01-05T22:03:55.475+00:00I wish I had discovered her when I was struggling ...I wish I had discovered her when I was struggling with my maths at school/college/uni etc...what a wonderful visual mathematics that poem is. It's the only thing that has inspired me to try anything with numbers! Thanks for posting it!Rachel Fentonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10046917627054462214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32078352.post-81956246623239956262010-01-05T15:40:58.616+00:002010-01-05T15:40:58.616+00:00I'm ashamed to say I've never read her wor...I'm ashamed to say I've never read her work, but I will. I will!Sue Guineyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13556228394020314560noreply@blogger.com