August 26

According to the article by Young, A poet’s expression with punctuation can be a form of notation. One can alter regular sentence construction in order to stress feelings, emotion, or draw attention to a particular area of the poem altering how it is read. A second form of notation is book art. It can rise above using individual words, and use the entire entity of the book as a form of notation. This can also include page layout, binding and type. This can affect or alter the presentation and can affect the reader. A third type of notation, according to the article, is standardized spelling can reduce the sense of fluidity and magic in language. Many poets of the last two centuries have reacted to this on a gut level by simply not learning to spell "correctly" -- William Morris, W.B. Yeats, and Ezra Pound have been among their company. More recently, poets like bill bissett have completely rejected standardized orthography and have spelled by intuition and their sense of how the words sound, look, and feel in the hopes of returning poetry to its oral base.
Various types of reading can involve kinesthetics. The kinesthetic link between outer and inner senses allows us to form images and imagine sounds to go along with the text. The article points out readings can be accompanied by facial movement, gesture, and wearing costumes. Poetry still is a physical art using multiple senses: the body as a whole equals or sometimes replaces the voice in performance art, and even silent readers turn pages, move their heads, their eyes, and their mouths. The ritualistic form in which manuscripts were read all have a kinesthetic form. A ninth century Chinese poet receiving a manuscript from a friend would first unroll or unfold it before him in an almost ritualistic fashion. He would certainly take notice of the silk or paper on which it was written, feeling its texture, hearing the sounds it made, perhaps smelling it.

I'm a little older than most of the kids in the class. When I was in junior high school computers were introduced to the class room. Oregon trail was innovative and cool.... However, I am technologically challenged. PC's were expensive, so typewriters were still the main household tool for writing papers. I only have a cell phone because I'm forced to, I don't own an ipod, and I probably would hardly ever get online if it were not for school.