The Country Changes
Lee Rudolph
Lee's poems are like places. I enter them and he talks to me there. I hear his voice. The rare quality is how full these places seem of things and feelings but
without crowding me. Rather they make me believe I'm really there. I like Lee's poems a lot."
—Dick Lourie
"He speaks accurately of physics and astronomy, but his purposes seem at odds with those of the technocratic elite. He is an alchemist or magician, looking
for the spirit of the physical."
—Renee Watkins, Aspect
about the author
Lee Rudolph's first published book was Calculus of Elementary Functions (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968). Later he was a founding member of the Alice James Poetry Cooperative, where he published Curses: And Songs and Poems (1974) and The Country Changes (1978). He has since continued to publish both poems (in magazines including The New Yorker and The Mathematical Intelligencer) and mathematical research articles, mostly concerning the knot theory of complex plane curves. He teaches at Clark University.
