how does one theorize line breaks in electronic non-being space versus breaks on the printed page? many poets take the same system and apply it to the electronic "page," but really e-non-being space page is expansive in a way that a physical page is not. for example, i could easily create a page that is larger than the boundaries of this screen that would require scrolling to see entirely and a page that is extremely long so that it would require scrolling in more than one direction--that's not possible in the same way with paper; plus, the way my words appear on paper do not change once printed, yet e-non-being space pages will look different to many readers because of software, hardware, and/or page code. in addition, words in e-non-being can be animated in a variety of ways. does a reader need to learn a new poetics for each poet, for each poem?

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