Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023) was born in Pasadena and majored in mathematics at UCLA. Her first poetry collection, 30 Miles from J-Town, received the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. She published several other collections, including That Blue Trickster Time (What Books, 2022), Stone Bow Prayer, and The Yellow Door. Active in the development of Asian American studies at UCLA, Uyematsu coedited the widely used anthology Roots: An Asian American Reader.

From The Invention of Mathematics

by Amy Uyematsu

/ two

after the number two there was no stopping
troubles blossoming
in geometric progression
two to tango
and two required for murder and war

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