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    Null Set
    Null Set
    Null Set
    Ebook92 pages30 minutes

    Null Set

    By Ted Mathys

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    Null Set collects the slightly obsessive possibilities that rise when we give them the space—odd jobs, trouble-making, and farm boy rambling, all in dialogue with mathematics, or William Faulkner, or other poets.

    From "Hypotenuse":


    HYPOTENUSE
    I write three, erase it, blow rubber
    shavings from the desk. Write its notation,
    erase it, blow shavings. Then three 3s

    erased, shavings blown, persist
    for the nonce, three of nothing, nowhere
    attending to discrete objects for counting,

    themselves objects at any rate. To kiss,
    sleep, and focus we know to close
    our eyes, imagine. I do, see nothing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoffee House Press
    Release dateMay 18, 2015
    ISBN9781566894043
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