The Prayers Of The Mathematician

John Nash was a genius who pushed mathematics to its outer limits as described in this poem awarded first prize in the BBC International Poetry Contest.

Pamela Spiro Wagner (now known as Phoebe Sparrow Wagner) is an author and poet who suffers from schizophrenia, complicated by narcolepsy and CNS Lyme disease. She has completed two collections of poetry Learning to See in Three Dimensions, Green Writers Press, and We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders, Cavankerry Press 2009 the later which was a finalist for Foreword review’s Poetry Book of the Year. She also co-authored with her sister, Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia (St. Martin’s Press, 2005) which won the National NAMI Outstanding Literature Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.  Her poem, “The Prayers of the Mathematician,” won first prize in the BBC International Poetry Contest. She lives in Brattleboro Vermont.

“The Prayers Of  The Mathematician first appeared in We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders, Cavankerry Press 2009.