Publisher's Synopsis
First Edition: SchoolNet Africa (South Africa), 2003.
An excerpt of five poems appeared in Academic Exchange Extra (USA), 2004 (November), under the title of For the Math Gyze. An excerpt of 11 poems appeared in CHALLENGER international (Canada), 2007 (Summer). Second Edition: LukivPress Online (Canada), 2007. Third Edition: Published in An Introductory Creative Writing Program-Monograph Two (Academic Exchange Extra [USA], 2009, January). Mathematics Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2011, published an excerpt, entitled For the Math Gyze, given to each UBC mathematics professor, as a gift. An excerpt of eight poems appeared in Piece of Mind (Canada), 2011 (June 7); and in Mathblogging.org, 2011 (Summer). Revised Edition: LukivPress (Canada), 2022. Originally published as Memories [of UBC] (SchoolNet Africa [South Africa], 2003). The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).