"Drawings by Kelly Krumrie"--Title page verso. Place of publication from the publisher's website. Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90).
Contents:
Jo as a circuit -- Outside -- Physical -- Jo in the frame of formal opens -- Story problem -- Attendance -- Hallway -- Carrying -- Chosen -- Math class -- Audiovisual -- Creek -- Jo considers water's fractions -- Interview -- Lace -- Optics -- Jo in configurations in the art room -- Jo visits the school counselor -- Jo at the lakeside -- Jo's body suspended in space -- Jo goes to gym class -- Chart -- Jo's pencil is an extremity of a line -- Jo is in above her exterior -- Seeing -- Math class.
Summary:
"MATH CLASS is a taut imbrication of storytelling and philosophical investigation thronged with a cohabiting sisterhood, at a place called St. Agatha's, where they are engaged in reflections on perception; bodily dissolutions and repairs; and the poiesis of logical operations of mind." "Krumrie's language proceeds via precise abstractions and marvelous mundanities, creating infinite new locations for the experience of anything at all." "The teenage girls in Kelly Krumrie's Math Class could well be aspiring saints or geometers, with their transfigurative arcs and extremities, keen diagramming skills, shared visions, and acute bodily suffering. Can one chart on intricate web of friendships or unravel the track of catastrophe?" "Math Class makes mathematical thinking tender, charming, full of longing, and strange" "Math Class is meditative, fascinating, unnerving, a precisely rendered dream of a book, a wondrous gem reflecting mysteries and meaning wherever it goes."
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