Entry 155 — Latest News & a New Version of a Poem
I find it amazing how badly I’m keeping my blog going. I will be worse at it over the next two weeks or so because I’ll be out of town. I’m leaving this afternoon for New York City, where I’ll spend a day or two with friends, then head for Connecticut to spend days with siblings. Eventually I’m to be at the Bowery Poetry Club for some sort of reading from 2 P.M. until 3:30 P.M. on Saturday, 10 July. The subject will be mathematical poetry.
Now for an update of the poem I have, or will have, on the wall of mathematics-related art that is now at the Bowery Poetry Club as part of the month-long event the reading I will participate in will wrap up:
I owe this version to Connie Tettenborn: her comment about my original version that its dividend, “mathematics,” ought to be switched with its quotient, “Spring,” didn’t make sense to me–but it did make me vaguely realize that I was claiming that arithmetic was of greater value than Spring, and that ain’t nothin’ of greater value than Spring. When Connie explicitly made that same point, I recognized that I had to do something, but took a day to come up with the solution above. I know think this may be one of my better poems instead of something I quickly made with a goal of being accessible. And I’ve always like the device of showing a correction.