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Feb 24th / Wednesday / '10
Poetry expands in time and space, and as the reader sees pronounces each word, the word has space and duration. However, poems can encourage a multi-forked time, or expansion into multiple directions at once, even though the reader can only read in one direction at any time.
- jessica smith. read the full essay here, as a PDF.
this plays on the idea of white/negative space on a page being something tangible, and not ‘negative space’ at all. smith views it as a ‘scape’ for which words are placed topographically.
see also: the importance of and/or active listening to the silence between notes in a song.
