looking through the mla 2019 schedule for the first time and i'm actually really excited about going now? there is a session for example called "poetics and annotation"
i am now AT THIS PANEL, as foretold in prootphecy (toot prophecy). i'll let you know how it goes
conclusion: it was really informative & thought-provoking! helpful to me: Ian Cornelius' argument that "novelistic" books with little annotation are anomalous & annotation-heavy books are the historical default; Meredith Martin's talk on the difficulties of digitizing text and the need therefore for https://prosody.princeton.edu/ (the Princeton Prosody Archive); Jeff Strabone locating poetic self-annotation as a trend starting w/poets borrowing the style of 18th century anglo-saxon poetry printings