Buckminster Fuller, in His Own Verse
Inventor. Designer. Environmentalist. Humanitarian. Carbon-atom assemblage namesake. Lover of neologisms and Jell-O. Now we can add “poet” to the long list of nouns that describe Buckminster Fuller, currently the subject of a summer-long celebration in New York City. News that Fuller was versed in verse comes to us via The Mail, the heading under which The New Yorker prints letters to the editor. Responding to Elizabeth Kolbert’s recent piece on Fuller, one Jessica Lipnack shares her memory of having Bucky over for dinner (Jell-O free, she points out) in 1977:
Knowing my fascination with his great-aunt, the journalist and women’s-rights activist Margaret Fuller, Bucky recited for me a jingle that night:
Fuller is a name,
For better or for worse,
Of two who grappled with the Universe,
I accept it, said the famous spinster;
I explain it, said the bold Buckminster.
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