Taking individual phrases and sentences out of the traditional form and placing them each on one line, redistributes the weight. They were instructing her on where to stand. Move your hand slowly like this. A little faster. She sees the last corner of sky vanishing forever.
Lines enjoy their own space and thus become more important.
Presenting phrases with the equivalent of line breaks gives a dramatic, if not operatic, quality to the flow of narrative. The forced slowing of narrative also creates a sense of poetry. Yet the book is classified as fiction. The use of graphic space in work by Maso, Scalapino and myself is essential. The awareness of weight is essential in genre definition and in breaking form.