The page may be empty because it requires filling, because it is a kind of void waiting for being. In the latter case, the page will have its revenge, for the empty page will turn up, amplified a hundred fold, as the empty screen in the theater. Film, like poetry, is an art caught between auditory and visual elements, though it has been more successful than poetry in balancing the two. We are the age to develop this function, and the film is a matrix for the new form. As Rukeyser knew, to understand writing is also to understand film.
Writing is in a state of crisis.
This is to say that print culture is in a state of crisis. They differ considerably in form, purpose and subject matter. It is a state of crisis and Mallarme was right, poetry is the language for it.