The Physics Student, poetry

By Dan Lukiv

For the Math Gyze, re-named The Physics Student

"I...did enjoy these poems]," Elizabeth Haller, Academic Exchange Extra (USA).

"Thanks, Dan, for the nice surprise gift. May I]...post them on my blog?", Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub (Professor of Mathematics, UBC).

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 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 head
With one end of a chalk stick,
Releasing white dust into his
Hair-nest-

Snow builds up on plaid shoulders,
Even on cracked leather shoes,
Until he jerks into action,
Epiphanied,
Filling the green board with
Further hieroglyphica.

This, in the auditorium of many seats,
For a little clump of fourth-year
Hyperbolic experts,
Who have grown unmoved by these
Blizzards that come
And 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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1713079720
• ISBN13: 9781713079729
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"