Kelly Krumrie’s figuring
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences.
Kelly Krumrie’s figuring
Figuring
is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences.
Review of Carrie Tiffany’s “Exploded View”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column reviews Australian author Carrie Tiffany's novel, Exploded View.
On Fractals, Part 2
"How can literature be fractal? It should probably include repetitions on various scales. But what are the edges of literary repetition? What can be counted? How can what’s counted get bigger or smaller while remaining the same?" - Kelly Krumrie
On Fractals, Part 1
"I am fascinated by the rendering of geometric constructions in language, the Euclidean inquiry into what is a line and how can I both draw and describe it, and with what tools… How this writing is similar to and different from poetry, for example. How the directions above make something by doing the same thing over and over." --- Kelly Krumrie
Thoughts on Image Scales of the Planet
"A couple pulls over at sunset and takes a picture in front of a reservoir (bright sky, bright lake): in fact a place for particles to settle, the colors chemical. No fish. It’s pieces of the mountain" — Kelly Krumrie, Image Scales of the Planet
Writing Prompts for a Dark Hemisphere
"The first numbers were objects, then knots and notches, then parts of the body, gesture— followed by words, representational figures, linguistic mappings, arbitrary figures." — Kelly Krumrie
Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.
Review of Carrie Tiffany’s “Exploded View”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column reviews Australian author Carrie Tiffany's novel, Exploded View.
On Fractals, Part 2
"How can literature be fractal? It should probably include repetitions on various scales. But what are the edges of literary repetition? What can be counted? How can what’s counted get bigger or smaller while remaining the same?" - Kelly Krumrie
On Fractals, Part 1
"I am fascinated by the rendering of geometric constructions in language, the Euclidean inquiry into what is a line and how can I both draw and describe it, and with what tools… How this writing is similar to and different from poetry, for example. How the directions above make something by doing the same thing over and over." --- Kelly Krumrie
Thoughts on Image Scales of the Planet
"A couple pulls over at sunset and takes a picture in front of a reservoir (bright sky, bright lake): in fact a place for particles to settle, the colors chemical. No fish. It’s pieces of the mountain" — Kelly Krumrie, Image Scales of the Planet
Writing Prompts for a Dark Hemisphere
"The first numbers were objects, then knots and notches, then parts of the body, gesture— followed by words, representational figures, linguistic mappings, arbitrary figures." — Kelly Krumrie
Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.
About the Author
Kelly Krumrie‘s prose, poetry, and reviews are forthcoming from or appear in Entropy, La Vague, Black Warrior Review, Full Stop, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver where she serves as the prose editor for Denver Quarterly.