The best poetry of the early part of Dove’s career is collected in Selected Poems, an anthology of works from The House on the Yellow Corner, Museum, and Thomas and Beulah, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for 1987. Selected Poems was published by Pantheon Books in 1993.

Dove is also a novelist. Her book Through the Ivory Gates, published by Vintage Books in 1993, tells the fictional tale of a young black artist, whose life is much like the author’s, who returns to her home in Akron to run an artistsin- schools program.

W. S. Merwin’s poem “The Horizons of Rooms” is similar to “Geometry” in the way that it contemplates the ways that humans surround themselves with logical constructs of their own making, forgetting about the independent world of nature that goes beyond human order. It is found in Merwin’s 1988 collection The Rain in the Trees, published by Knopf.

Walt Whitman’s poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” expresses sorrow at the ways that scientific knowledge narrows one’s experience of the world. It can be found in Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems, edited by Francis Murphy, published by Viking Press in 1990.

Other poems like “Geometry” can be found in Against Infinity: An Anthology of Contemporary Mathematical Poetry, initiated, collected, and edited by Ernest Robson and Jet Wimp, published by Primary Press in 1979.

“Ode to Numbers,” by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, is a short poem that looks at math in the same spirit that informed Dove. It can be found in the anthology Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, published in 1990 by University of California Press.

Linda Pastan’s poem “Arithmetic Lesson: Infinity” is included in her collection Carnival Evenings: New and Selected Poems, 1968–1998, published in 1998 by W. W. Norton Company.