Reseña del libro "The Physics Student, poetry (en Inglés)"
Entitled For the Math Gyze: First Edition: serialized in Academic Exchange Extra (Greeley, CO [University of Northern Colorado]), 2004. Second Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2009. Third Edition: CHALLENGER international (Quesnel, BC), 2011. Mathematics Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 2011. Each mathematics professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) received the collection as a gift. Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub, Professor of Mathematics at UBC, published an excerpt of 8 poems from For the Math Gyze, in his Piece of Mind blog (June 7, 2011). Mathblogging.org also published the excerpt of 8 poems from For the Math Gyze (Summer, 2011). Revised Edition, under the title of The Physics Student: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. An excerpt The Mathematics Professor He stops, mid-Equation-jumble, mid-thought, Eyes staring upwards, Scratching his Garfunkel headWith one end of a chalk stick, Releasing white dust into hisHair-nest- Snow builds up on plaid shoulders, Even on cracked leather shoes, Until he jerks into action, Epiphanied, Filling the green board withFurther hieroglyphica. This, in the auditorium of many seats, For a little clump of fourth-yearHyperbolic experts, Who have grown unmoved by theseBlizzards that comeAnd go. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).
