Dear Allison,
If you can ever catch "The Proof: Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles" on PBS' Nova
series (US) you may be struck as I was not with the mathematics (I can
barely balance my checkbook) as much as Andrew Wiles' creative process. The
parallels between systems is not necessarily on the surface (numbers vs.
words) but in the personal processes.
One of the points Johnathan Ivry made that strikes me most is:
"The ideal poetics can transcend these "strange loops" only
by aspiring to a condition of music, in which self and language are no
longer referential and expressive but rather performative and
self-identical."
That poetry may be "a definite integral with lower limit speech and upper
limit music" is an even more interesting statement to me. Allison,
"in a heart
beat in
a heart
beat
older than we are
language invented only this morning
all houses, all landscapes
marry those sounds"
-fp
And I add that our human experience allows the poet to further express:
"my daughter enters
the room and finds me
on the edge of my bed
What can be funnier
than this, she said
I'm not ready for school
*
there is a place
before numbers
each number is infinite
there is no difference
our worlds crumble
do everything
do nothing
*
years
of myself
there
another day
outside
my grasp"
-fp
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Frank Parker
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