| photo of Marion Cohen |
| This is my photo; we were sitting around the kitchen table and Ariel said, "Let's get you on My Space..." |
Download: Marion Cohen's photo on MySpace
[ posted Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 7:30 AM ] |
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| book cover for "Crossing the Equal Sign" |
| I'm proud of the cover of my latest book, "Crossing the Equal Sign". The credit goes to fabulous artist Paul Klee. |
Download: 9781891386695-cov.pdf
[ posted Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 7:27 AM ] |
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| Permission to Add (the math limericks) |
| These limericks were written when I was teaching calc, diff. eq., PDE, complex, vector, prob/stat, abstract alg, etc.-- NEW! Category theory! |
Download: Permission to Add.pdf
[ posted Friday, January 12, 2007 at 2:12 PM ] |
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| Info about new book! |
| My new book, "Crossing the Equal Sign", of poems about the experience of mathematics, is due out in December! Check out this book flyer, which includes a sample poem, a Klee drawing, and details about ordering. |
Download: mathpoflyer.pdf
[ posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 8:21 AM ] |
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| Arithmetic: More of the Story |
| This is a math paper, not poetry or creative non-fiction (like the other posts on this site). But it's poetic & creative! |
| This paper stems from an idea that I got back in high school, and also includes more "sophisticated" ideas. It's about "starting" arithmetic with, not necessarily addition, but ANY "binary" operation. In the arithmetic that we know, both addition and multiplication (repeated addition) are commu-
tative and associatvie. I was wondering whether there are "other arithmetics" with
this property. About fifteen years ago I realized that there can't be; however, another interesting question is, can there be other arithmetics where "addition" and "multiplication" are both ("merely") ASSOCIATIVE.
This paper has drawn the interest of the several mathe-
maticians with whom I've dis-
cussed it, but has also been
rejected by a couple ofjournals, pretty much because the editors just-plain didn't like it, or didn't feel that their readers would like it. What I've gleaned, so far, is that (1) the paper is both correct and original (perhaps EXTREMELY original...), and (2) there are aspects of the math in it that are appealing at least to some.
One of my several life's goals has been for this idea to be published. So while I await the decision of the "next" journal that I've submitted it to, I'm posting it on this site (that is, for the same reason as for the other posts on this site). If you choose to read it, I hope you enjoy! |
Download: arith-more.pdf
[ posted Monday, July 17, 2006 at 9:15 AM ] |
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| Not Erma Bombeck |
| This is a prose book, written in the mid-70's, about my experiences and my feelings with and about motherhood. |
| This was written during (and about" the women's movement of the 70's. My feelings about motherhood have, over the decades, changed in many ways (as explained in the Introduction), but I learned a lot then as, like a child, I went through some necessary "ages and stages". |
Download: NotErmaBombeck.pdf
[ posted Thursday, June 8, 2006 at 6:17 PM ] |
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| One Thing about Angels |
| These are the poems written during the last decade -- well, the last 11 years, from 1995 to 2006 (the current year). |
| Once again, as with the other two "collected poems", there were important things happening about which I wrote other books, published or posted on this site. In particular, "Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse" appeared in '95 (written a year earlier) from Temple U. Press. Also, "Epsilon Country", well spouse poems, appeared around the same time (but written three or so years ealier) from the Center for Thanatology Research. And it was during the past decade that I worked on and solved a math problem that I'm pleased with (didn't publish it a paper because it turned out that it had been done already) and thereby wrote the poems in "Crossing the Equal Sign". And "Progressive" winds up the well-spouse saga (though never the FORMER well spouse saga...). Also in "Progressive" are more wedding poems (in addition to the ones in this collection). It was during the past decade, too, that I began writing math limericks, and most of them are posted on this site under "Permission to Add". Prose-
wise (besides the published "Dirty Details"), on this site there's "Cruel and Unusual", a long essay on the well spouse and societal issues, as well as "Oaktag and Eyeballs: Thoughts on Children, Education, and Society", which is what I have to say about how to maybe (speaking pragmatically as well as modestly) save the world.
Any poems that I write after this will have to either find a book or chapbook publisher, or wait 'til enough collect so I post them on this site -- so it's with a slight hesitation that I'm about to hit the "Submit" button ! |
Download: Angels.pdf
[ posted Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 12:26 PM ] |
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| The Three-Pointed Star |
| These "collected poems" were written in 1985-95, during my second decade as a serious writer. |
| As with "Loneliness of the Short Distance Runner", this collection does NOT include the fall range of pregnancy loss, well spouse, and math poems. These appear in other postings on this site, such as "Progressive", "Crossing the Equal Sign", as well as my published books (such as "The Sitting-Down Hug" and "Epsilon Country", available through Amazon, Borders, and Barnes and Noble). |
Download: The3Pted*.pdf
[ posted Monday, June 5, 2006 at 8:04 PM ] |
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| Loneliness of the Short Distance Runner |
| These are my first poems, written during the first ten years of my life as a serious writer. |
| These poems do NOT include the poems that appear in my poetry books from those ten years (namely, THE WEIRDEST IS THE SPHERE and SHE WAS BORN SHE DIED). I mention this because
at least two significant things happened to me and my family during those ten years; those two things are revealed in this collection, but the collection does not reflect the fact that it seems to be my way to write many, rather than one or two, poems about the "biggie experiences" in my life. I would want readers of these "collected poems" to know that. (Any reader who would like to read my book sof more "specialized" poems is warmly invited to turn to some of the other postings on this website -- e.g., "Progressive" and "Crossing the Equal Sign" (and, of course, to investigate my published books such as "She Was Born She Died" via Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Nobles, etc.) |
Download: Loneliness-of-Short-.pdf
[ posted Monday, June 5, 2006 at 7:40 PM ] |
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| The Life and Habits of the Child-of-Misfortune |
| People usually agree I've had more than my share of misfortune, and I feel I've also had more than my share of happiness. These poems are meant to describe post-traumatic stress syndrome, NOT depression. |
Download: child-of-misfortune.cwk
[ posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 12:15 PM ] |
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| Closer to Dying: Poems from the 49th Year |
| These are poems written as I was approaching age 50. |
Download: closer-to-dying.cwk
[ posted Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 3:42 PM ] |
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| The Fuss and the Fury |
| the "Devin poems" -- Devin is my youngest child, born in 1985. When I re-read these poems it brings it all back (which is one of the things I hope they'd accomplish). |
Download: fuss&fury.pdf
[ posted Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 1:37 PM ] |
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| TheWomanMathematician |
| math prosepoems |
Download: TheWomanMathematician.pdf
[ posted Sunday, December 25, 2005 at 2:03 PM ] |
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| Oaktag-and-Eyeballs-Part-1 |
| This book grew out of my family's experience with home-schooling. It was wonderful -- near-perfect -- but this book is not only about home-schooling. It is about ideas gleaned from home-schooling. In some ways, this is my ultimate manifesto. |
Download: Otg&Eybs-first-part,pdf.pdf
[ posted Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 12:38 PM ] |
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| Oaktag-and-Eyeballs,Part-2 |
| This book grew out of my family's experience with home-schooling for eight years. It was wonderful, perhaps perfect, but the book is not only about home-schooling but also about ideas derived from home-schooling. In a way, it's my ultimate credo and manif |
Download: Okt&Ebls-part2-pdf..pdf
[ posted Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 10:24 AM ] |
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| Cruel and Unusual |
| This "prose well spouse book" is a collection of related essays, the ideas gleaned from interactions with people while promoting "Dirty Details". |
| A very helpful organization for well spouses (which is the subject of this book) is the Well Spouse Association; its web address is: www.wellspouse.org |
Download: new_cruel_and_unusual.pdf
[ posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 10:09 AM ] |
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| Chronic Progressive |
| the last in the series of collections of well-spouse poems (A well spouse is the spouse of someone who is CHRONICALLY ill and/or disabled.) |
| A very helpful organization for well spouses (which is the subject of this book, and of the two poetry books to which it is a sequel ("The Sitting-Down Hug" and "Epsilon Country) is The Well Spouse Association. Its web address is: www.wellspouse.org |
Download: Progressive(WSpoems).pdf
[ posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 at 4:50 PM ] |
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