What do you do when you reach the right margin? What to do if you don’t want to turn back to the page but keep going? Alas the limitation of a piece of paper!
Is the poetic expression controlled by the size of a piece of paper? Or should the paper find a way to accommodate the expression? If words fall off the edge of the paper (Is it allowed?) where will they go? Who will catch them?
“Beethoven wrote a sonata that was out of the piano’s range of his time.” Composer Henry Cowell said in an interview regarding Charles Ives, “Some composers write for instruments as they find them. Others insist that one be built for the music they hear in their mind.”
