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constraint as scaffold

Submitted by alesnick on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 8:46am.

The poem and comment I recently posted speak to this shift -- thinking of formal systems as enabling constraints, not full stops on the horizon of expanding possibility.  So, the poem can be read (and perhaps written?) not as a rejection of the formal system of English, in this case, or of language instruction, but of the necessary creativity engaged by their uptake.
 

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