Ivh - An Alphamath Serial

Poetry. IVH: AN ALPHAMATH SERIAL is a book-length poem composed in the tradition of such precursors as Pythagoras, who taught that Number was the essence of all things; Plato, who argued that geometry was the foundation of all knowledge; Leonardo, whose work clearly follows the Renaissance aesthetics of mathematics and the mathematics of aesthetics; Descartes, Pascal, and d'Alembert, all of whom were both writers and mathematicians; Schopenhauer and Lewis Carroll, and then moderns such as Valery and Ezra Pound, who, in his The Spirit of Romance, declared that "poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics." And now, in 2012, as the present moment in this literary trajectory, IVH: AN ALPHAMATH SERIAL has arrived in the form of a faux transtranslation of Raymond Queneau's 1939 novel Un rude hiver!

About the author

VICTOR COLEMAN lives and works in Toronto. He has taught courses in modern and postmodern literature at Toronto New School of Writing, and leads an ongoing Writers Workshop at The Coach House Press that is open to anyone interested in "progressive" writing and thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Coleman
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2012
• EAN: 9781927040362
• ISBN: 978-1-927040-36-2
• No. of pages: 72
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 241 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 113 g
• Series: Book Thug Tradebooks; Book Thug Tradebooks
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama