The poet's view of text is necessarily very different. To the imagination the materialities of text (oral, written, printed, electronic) are incarnational not vehicular forms. But for the scientist and scholar, the media of expression are primarily conceptual utilities, means rather than ends; to the degree that an expressive form hinders the conceptual goal (whether it be theoretical or practical), to that extent one will seek to evade or supercede it -- perhaps even, in critical times, to develop new intellectual devices. But good poets do not really quarrel with their tools. As William Morris famously observed, "You can't have art without resistance in the materials". ------Jerome McGann
	One of the concepts Joe Amato likes to talk about is that poetry is very dependent on the media that it is presented on. Form cannot be separated from content. As the media changes, so does the nature of poetry.