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Roald Hoffmann Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981
Nobel Prize also awarded to Kenichi Fukui
National Medal of Science - Chemistry 1983 USA

Chemist, Poet, Philosopher, Writer, Chemistry Teacher Text/Television.

Publications Poetry

BOOKS
POEMS
IN ANTHOLOGIES
QUOTATIONS OF POEMS
MUSICAL SETTINGS OF POEMS
REVIEWS OF POETRY
ANIMATED FILM

BOOKS:

  1. The Metamict State, University of Central Florida Press (University Presses of Florida), Orlando, 1987.
  2. Gaps and Verges, University of Central Florida Press (University Presses of Florida), Orlando, 1990.
  3. Memory Effects, Calhoun Press, Chicago, 1999.
  4. Soliton, Truman State University Press, Kirksville, MO, 2002.
  5. Catalista: Poemas Escogidos, Huerga & Fierro Editores, Madrid, 2002; Bilingual edition, Spanish translations by several people, edited by Francisco Garcia Olmedo.
  6. Roald Hoffmann Izbrannie Stichotvorenia, Izdatel'stvo Tekst, Moscow, 2010; Bilingual edition, Russian/English; Russian translations, mainly by Alla Mikhalevich and Victor Fet.

INDIVIDUAL POEMS:

  1. Men and Molecules, Synthesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7, No. 1, 43 (1984); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia), CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 19 (1989); (translated into Croatian by Mate Maras), Velikane nase epohe (Zagreb: 1994), p. 321;(translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) in Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).
  2. Fluorite, Synthesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, 7, 46, No. 1 (1984); in revised form in The Sciences, 28, Sept. Oct., p. 30 (1988); in John C. Kotz and Keith F. Purcell, "Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity", Saunders College Publishing, New York, 1991, p. 241.
  3. Finnair Fragment, in "Songs from Unsung Worlds" ed. B. B. Gordon, Birkhauser, Boston, 1985, p. 80.
  4. From a Rise of Land to the Sea, ibid., p. 120; (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo) Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 6 (1988).
  5. Cosmetic Company Buys Eisenhower College, Michigan Quarterly Review, 24, No. 2, 217 (1985).
  6. Three Japanese Edo Period Pots, Vienna Review (Brandeis University) (1985).
  7. An Unusual State of Matter, in "Bound" ed. W. Carleton, C. Bond, Cornell University (1986); translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia, CTS, Lisbon, No. 7/8, 15 (1989); Current Contents, 31 (51/52), 5 (1991); translated into Bengali by Samir Gupta, Steps, Kolkata (2004).
  8. Napkin Engineering, The Manhattan Review, 4, No. 1, 3 (1986); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo) Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 4 (1988); in "Rhysling Anthology", 1987, p. 13; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  9. The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics, Webster Review, XI, No,. 2, 41 (1986); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia) CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 18 (1989); (translated into German) Kultur & Technik, No. 3, 43 (1992); in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, "Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, p. 53-56.
  10. Next Slide Please, Aldrichimica Acta, 19, No. 1, 27 (1986); in "The Longman Literary Companion to Science", ed. W. Gratzer, Longman, London, 1989, p. 70; translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefanska-Steven in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.20 (2002).
  11. Be Wanting, Folio, 3, No. 2, 21 (1986); translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefánska, Humanistyka i Plec, II. Kobiety w Poznaniu Naukowym Wczoraj i Dzis, ed. Elzbieta Pakszys and Danuta Sobczynska, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1997, pp.82-83.
  12. June 1944, Prairie Schooner, 61, No. 1, 78 (1987); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  13. New Traffic Patterns Ahead, Negative Capability VII, No. I, 123 (1987). (3rd prize winner in the Eve of St. Agnes Competition.)
  14. Terrorists, Alabama Literary Review, 1, 17 (1987).
  15. The Man for Whom Everything Came Easy, ibid., 1, 18 (1987); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.21 (2002).
  16. Mind Grackles, Gryphon, XII, No. 2, 68 (1987); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 5 (1988).
  17. Organic, Inorganic, Kentucky Poetry Review 23, No. 2, 38 (1987).
  18. Carcinoma, The Laurel Review, Winter/Summer 1987, 60; (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.20 (2002).
  19. Touching the Surface, New Letters (1987). (Honorable mention in New Letters Literary Awards for 1986.); (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 5 (1988); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia) CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 17 (1989).
  20. Christmas, or Was it a Birthday, Piedmont Literary Review (1987).
  21. Modes of Representation, The Journal, 11, 45 (1987); Chemisch Weekblad, 86(51/52), 564 (1990).
  22. Searchers and Deciders, in "Societal Issues, Scientific Viewpoints", ed. M. A. Strom, American Institute of Physics, New York (1987), p.2; (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin) Literaturnaya Gazeta, Feb. 28, 1990.
  23. To What End, ibid., p. 105.
  24. Svoloch, The New York Quarterly, 33, 98 (1987); (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Novoe Vremya (Moscow), No. 22, p. 48, 1991; Alef (Jerusalem), No. 386, 15 July 1991; Khimya i Zhiz'n, 92 (1992).
  25. Bicycling on Lidingö (translated into Swedish by Jonas Ellerström), Transit (Lund, Sweden) No. 16, 27 (1987).
  26. Breaking (translated into Swedish by Jonas Ellerström), Transit (Lund, Sweden), No. 16, 28 (1987); Confrontation, No. 51, 232 (1993).
  27. Corral, South Coast Poetry Journal, 4, 46 (1987), (2nd prize in the 2nd Annual Poetry Contest.); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  28. The Difference Between Art and Science, (translated into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 4 (1988); (translated into Portuguese by Clara Pinto Correia), CTS (Lisbon), No. 7/8, 16 (1989); Chemisch Weekblad, 86(51/52), 564 (1990); (translated into Spanish) La Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), March 3, 1993, p. 37; La diferencia entre el arte y la ciencia, La Prensa Literaria (3/31/01).
  29. Height, Thirteen, VI(2), 10 (1988); (translated into Korean), Sisa Journal, Oct. 28, 1993, p. 101; (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów (2002), p. 19.
  30. Hydropathic, Thirteen, VI(2), 25 (1988).
  31. Grand Unification, Triquarterly, 72, 50 (1988); also Media Fields Journal, 4 (2012), mediafieldsjournal.org.
  32. Evolution, Southwest Review, 73, 273 (1988); Current Contents, 31 (51/52), 7 (1991); (translated into Spanish by Carlos Chimal), Avance y Perspectiva, 11, 384 (1992); also in La Jornada, Semanal, May 24, 1998, p. 16; The New Theater Review, 11, 16 (1994); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.19 (2002); (translated into Russian by Victor Fet), Mosty (Frankfurt), 17, 319-320 (2008); Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 359 (2011).
  33. Intuition, Thirteen, VI(3), 37 (1988); Glass Technology, 34(2), 84 (1993); (translated into Croatian), Velikane na_e epohe (Zagreb: 1994), p. 321; (translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).
  34. In an Antique Shop in 's-Gravenhage, Kentucky poetry review, 24, No. 1, 25 (1988).
  35. The 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics, Images, 13, No. 3, 4 (1988). In R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, "Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, p. 112-3.
  36. Stretch Marks, Negative Capability VIII(3), 37 (1988).
  37. In Need of Mending, Nimrod, 32, No. 1, 121 (1988).
  38. From Lake Louise, The New Renaissance, VII, No. 3, 30 (1989); (translanted into French by Pierre Laszlo), Nouv. J. Chim., 12, 6 (1988); (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Literaturnaya Gazeta, Feb. 28, 1990.
  39. Hitchhiking, Prairie Schooner, 63, No. 2, 26 (1989).
  40. Survival Techniques, Prairie Schooner, 63, No. 2, 27 (1989).
  41. The Difference Between Art and Science,II, Webster Review, 14, No. 2, 89 (1990).
  42. What We Have Learned About the Pineal, The Jacaranda Review, IV, No. 1, 155 (1989).
  43. Speaker for the Dead, Midstream, 35, No. 7, 64 (1989).
  44. Games in the Attic, The Scientist, Dec. 11, 1989, p. 15; (translated into Swedish by Lars-Håkan Svensson), Lyrikvännen, 1-2, 67-68 (1992).
  45. Bora, Bora-Bora, Kentucky poetry review, 25, 26 (1989/90; Yizkor, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9, No. 2, 219 (1990).
  46. June 1943, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9, No. 2, 221 (1990); (translated into Swedish by Lars-Håkan Svensson), Lyrikvännen, 1-2, 69 (1992).
  47. My Haunt, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9, No. 2, 222 (1990).
  48. Looking Into the Cave, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 9, No. 2, 222 (1990); The Bookpress, 4,(7), 2 (1994).
  49. Into the Stadium, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 2 (1990).
  50. The Sensual Laboratory Assistant, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 3 (1990).
  51. Here's What Thistles Can Do, Beloit Poetry Journal, 41(2), 4 (1990); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  52. Listen, in "Life on the Line", ed. S.B. Walker and R.D. Roffman, Negative Capability Press, Mobile, 1992, p. 459.
  53. A Sunset Clause, Carolina Quarterly, 43(2), 33 (1991).
  54. Giving In, The Paris Review, 33(121), 189 (1991); Cornell Alumni News, 94(5), 43 (1991); (translated into Spanish), La Republica (Montevideo, Uruguay), March 3, 1993, p. 37; in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, "Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1993, p. 133-4; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  55. Ponder Fire, The Paris Review, 33(121), 190 (1991).
  56. Bonding, Aldrichimica Acta, 24(2), 56 (1991); in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, "Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, p. 119-23.
  57. Longing (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Khimya i Zhiz'n, 90, (1992).
  58. Two Fathers (translated into Russian by Victor Raikin), Khimya i Zhiz'n, 90-91, (1992); (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven), in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p.21 (2002). Istvan Hargittay, Candid Science 1(Imperial College Press, 2000), p. 204. Also in Russian (translated by P.M. Zorky), Candid Science (Russian version) 1 (2003), p. 184.
  59. The Bering Bridge, New England Review, 14(4), 191 (1992); in Writing on Air, ed. D. Rothenberg & W.J. Pryor, MIT Press, 2003; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga; in Russian, transl. V. Fet, Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 360 (2011).
  60. Purlieu (translated into Swedish by Lars-Håkan Svensson), Lyrikvännen, 1-2, 69-70 (1992).
  61. Heat:Hot, as : Cold, in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence,"Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1993, p. 46.
  62. Rewrit, in R. Hoffmann and V. Torrence, "Chemistry Imagined", Smithsonian Institition Press, Washington 1993, p. 74-77; in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga; in Russian, transl. V. Fet, Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 358 (2011).
  63. Deceptively Like a Solid, Glass Technology, 34(2), 62 (1993); reprinted in J. Amer. Ceramic Soc., 81(4), 799 (1998).
  64. Method Acting, Point Judith Light,
  65. How Exactly Was This Done, Prairie Schooner, 68(3), 6 (1994).
  66. The Scientific Method, New Letters, 60(3), 103 (1994).
  67. Juan de Prado in Amsterdam, 1656, Colorado Review, XXI(2), 100-1 (1994).
  68. Havana, 1990-1517, Colorado Review, XXI(2) 102 (1994).
  69. Olive Tree Master, Colorado Review, XXI(2), 103 (1994).
  70. Eva at Skogshem (translated into Croatian by Mate Maras), Velikane nase epohe (Zagreb, 1994), p. 321; (translated into Croatian by Nenad Trinajstic) Ogledi o Znanosti i Znanstvenicima (Zagreb: Matica Hrvatska, 1998).
  71. Why Does Disorder in the Universe Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands, The Madison Review, 16(2), 45 (1994).
  72. Cheiron at Woodside, California (translated into Russian by Yu. A.Danilov), Voprosi Istorii Yestestvoznania i Techniki, 1994(2), 171-172; The Yale Review 85(1), 85-6 (1997).
  73. Fact, Facet, Face, Raritan, XV(I), 35 (1995).
  74. Arctic Hegira, Grand Street, 52, 110-11 (1995).
  75. Natural History, Chelsea, 59, 7 (1996).
  76. Tremors, Yeshiva Review, 2(3), 10 (1996).
  77. Chemical Said Song, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystal, 284, 1-2 (1996).
  78. How It Grows, in The Book of Love, ed. Diane Ackerman and Jeanne Mackin (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), pp.468-9.
  79. Like a Gas Flame Going Out With the Sound of Trying for Life, (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefánska), Humanistyka i Plec, II. Kobiety w Poznaniu Naukowym Wczoraj i Dzis, ed. Elzbieta Pakszys and Danuta Sobczynska, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, Poznan, 1997, pp.192-5.
  80. Free, Rendezvous, 31(2), 8-9 (1997).
  81. Isaac's Fall, Rendezvous, 31(2), 15-16 (1997).
  82. Specula, Weber Studies, 16(1), 17-21 (1998); translated into Catalan and Spanish in Nexus, 28, 15-17 and 75-76 (2002).
  83. One Asks, Queen's Quarterly, 106(1), 153 (1999) .
  84. Interface, Southern Humanities Review, 33(2), 183 (1999).
  85. Fields of Vision, Michigan Quarterly Review, 39(2), 244 (2000); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo(2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  86. Birdland, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 419 (2000)
  87. We Will Not Be Moved, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 420 (2000); Arts & Sciences Newsletter 24(2), 3 (2003).
  88. Where Shall I Look for Her?, Pembroke Magazine, 32, 421 (2000).
  89. Lessons in Being Alone, The Quad, 5(2), 8-9 (2000).
  90. Cupping, Notre Dame Review 12, (2001).
  91. Tsunami, Notre Dame Review 12, (2001); in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga; in Skeptical Inquirer, 30(6), 44 (2006).
  92. In View of the Promised Land, Midstream
  93. At First Sight, in Menachem Genack, ed., Letters to President Clinton: Biblical Lessons on Faith and Leadership, NY: Sterling Ethos, 2013, pp. 44-45.
  94. Black on Black, Hampden-Sydney Review
  95. Toledo, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  96. Why I Didn't Visit the Camp, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  97. Oligopoem, or les 'Mers, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  98. The Philosopher's Stone Found in January, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  99. Here's what the Wind Can Do, in M.A. Safir, Ed., Connecting Creations: Science-Technology-Literature-Arts, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporóneo (2000). Also translated into Spanish in the Spanish edition by Carlos Quiroga.
  100. Singing in the Rain, Provence, New Letters 67 (1), 34-35 (2000).
  101. Tsunami, Notre Dame Review 12, (2001).
  102. Dream Corps, The Massachusetts Review 63(4), (2002), p. 567.
  103. Flat Stones Beg to be Recycled, The Kenyon Review (2002), p. 41.
  104. Malacology, The Kenyon Review (2002), p. 42-3.
  105. Believing, (translated into Polish by Magdalena Stefańska-Steven) in Gazeta Malarsky/Poetów p. 19 (2002).
  106. Enough Already, in Arts & Sciences Newsletter 24(2), 3 (2003); (translated into Spanish by Patricia Linn) in Revuelta 1, p. 59, Univ. de las Américas Puebla (2005).
  107. From Surfeit to Dearth, (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.
  108. To the Flame, to the Flame, (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.
  109. Ground Truths, (translated into Italian by Renato Miradoli) in Golem, l'Indispensabile 1 (Feb. 2003): n. pag. Online. Internet. Available: golemindispensabile.it.
  110. Theoretical Chemistry, in Foundations of Chemistry 6: 11, (2004).
  111. The Mind/Body Problem, Chatauqua Literary Journal, 95 (2004).
  112. Lily of the Valley, Chatauqua Literary Journal, 96 (2004).
  113. The Bond, translated into Bengali by Samir Gupta, Steps, Kolkata (2004).
  114. The Reflection, translated into Bengali by Sabyasachi Das, Nellohit (2006).
  115. Evolution, L'Actualite Chimique Canadienne, (2008).
  116. Code, Memory, The Sigurd Journal, 1(3), 2008. Also under the title "Mnemosyne's Trail," in English and Spanish (translated by Francisco Garcia Olmedo), El Invisible Anillo (Madrid), 10, 68-69 (2009); (transl. in Russian by V. Fet), Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 356 (2011).
  117. The Seeing Is Good, Urhalpool, 1(2), 108-109 (2009).
  118. When You See a Mountain, Urhalpool, 1(2), 110 (2009).
  119. Constants of Motion, New Letters, 76(1), 50 (2009).
  120. Just When We Are Safest, The Yale Review, 98(1), 126-127 (2010).
  121. The God's Face, Southern Humanities Review, 44(1), 10-12 (2010).
  122. Theoretical Chemistry, Southwest Review, 95(1/2), 207 (2010).
  123. Sustainable Development, translated into Spanish as Desarollo Sustenable by Mónica Mansour, La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico City, No. 486, June 2011, p. 3, and trans. Santiago Aguaded Landero in Voces Verdes de la Tartéside, Universidad de Huelva, 2012, pp. 97-99; Sustainable Development, Media Fields Journal, 4 (2012), available at http://mediafieldsjournal.org.
  124. Lava, in Russian, transl. V. Fet, Svyaz Vremyon, 3, 361 (2011).
  125. With, or Against, Beloit Poetry Journal, 64(2), 32-33 (2013).
  126. The Exchange, Southwest Review, 99(1), 121 (2014).
  127. Basket, Alabama Literary Review, 22(1), 41-44 (2014).
  128. Tectonics, Alabama Literary Review, 22(1), 45-48 (2014).

IN ANTHOLOGIES:

  1. Songs From Unsung Worlds, ed. B. B. Gordon, Birkhauser, Boston, 1985: Finnair Fragment.
  2. Rhysling Anthology, 1987: Napkin Engineering.
  3. The Longman Literary Companion to Science, ed. W. Gratzer, Longman, London, 1989: Next Slide Please.
  4. The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review Anthology, ed. T. O'Grady. Hampden-Sydney, 1990: Of Scatological Interest.
  5. Life on the Line, ed. S.B. Walker and R.D. Roffman, Negative Capability Press, 1992: Listen
  6. Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry, ed. R. Pack, J. Parini, Middlebury College Press, Hanover, 1993: The Bering Bridge.
  7. The Best American Poetry 1994, ed. A.R. Ammons and D. Lehman, Scribners, New York, 1994: Deceptively Like a Solid.
  8. The Book of Love, ed. Diane Ackerman and Jeanne Mackin , New York: W.W. Norton, 1998, pp.468-9: How It Grows.
  9. Verse and Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics, ed. K. Brown, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1998: Giving In; Who Uses Whom; Fritz Haber; What We Have Learned About the Pineal; Jerry-Built Forever; Grand Unification.
  10. A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal, ed. M.K. Stocking, Beloit Poetry Journal Found Lamoine, 2000: Into the Stadium; The Sensual Laboratory Assistant.
  11. A Quark for Mister Mark, ed. M. Riordan and J. Turney, London: Faber and Faber, 2000: Modes of Representation; Giving In.
  12. Bittersweet Legacy: Creative Responses to the Holocaust; Studies in the Shoah 24, ed. C. Moskowitz Brody, University Press of America, 2001: Natural History; Speaker for the Dead.
  13. 2001: a Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, ed. Keith Allen Daniels, San Francisco: Anamnesis Press, 2001: Harry, Ready, Classic; The Trouble with Atoms; Fact, Facet, Face.
  14. Explorando el mundo, ed Miguel Garcia-Posada, Gadir Editorial, Madrid, 2006: La diferencia entre el arte y la ciencia (The Difference Between Art and Science).
  15. The Auschwitz Poems, ed. Adam A. Zych, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim, 1999: Speaker for the Dead (p. 155).
  16. Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, ed. Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney, A.K. Peters, Wellesley, 2008: Why Does Disorder Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands? (p.31)

QUOTATIONS OF POEMS:

  1. F. Cramer, Chaos and Order; The Complex Structure of Living Things, (published also in German), (New York: VCH, 1993): Autumn Entelechies.
  2. J. Timpane, Poetry for Dummies (New York: Hungry Minds, Inc., 2001): Deceptively Like a Solid (excerpt).
  3. H. Posner & I. Samfield, "Creative Inquirers: the Poetry of Scientists" in The Independent Scholar, XIV(1), Winter 1999-2000: An Unusual State of Matter (excerpt).

MUSICAL SETTINGS OF POEMS (by Jane Wilkinson, for flute, viola, piano and narrator; 1993):

  1. Autumn Entelechy
  2. Lava
  3. Heat: Hot as ___: Cold
  4. Here's What Thistles Can Do
  5. An Unusual State of Matter

REVIEWS OF POETRY

  1. "Memory Effects", by Emily Grosholz, Studies in American Jewish Literature, 19: 92-95 (2000).
  2. "The Scientist as a Poet," George & Eva Klein, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 25(4), 256-260, (2000).
  3. "An alchemist of our times," Lars-HÃ¥kan Svensson, Nature, 405 (2000).
  4. "Roald Hoffmann: molecules i versos," Xavier Duran, Revista de la Societat Catalana de Quimica, 4, 62-65 (2003).
  5. "Memory Effects": Review by G.B. Kauffman and L.M. Kauffman, The Chemical Educator, 10(1), 67-69 (2005).
  6. "Kobi O Biggyani: Roald Hoffmann," review by Siddhartha Majumdar, Kobi Sommelon, Sharodiyo (2012), pp. 188-192.

ANIMATED FILM

  1. "Tulips at Dawn," by Rosie Pedlow (London), 2002, 3 min. 42 sec., using Modes of Representation.

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Name: Roald Hoffmann
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