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“[Y]ou have to use the language of prose to define poetry,” or, Poetry and the e-world are not the best of friends.
Over at the Poetry Foundation’s site, Alizah Salario has a long, informative, and well-reported article about the difficulties that face publishers when they try to turn books of poetry into e-books.
The problems lie, primarily, with the difficulty of getting an e-pub format–and thus an e-reader–to render the careful lineation of poetry correctly. Like prose, [...]
“Orpheus had his lyre, Hardy has his lyrics.”
Over at the Poetry Foundation site–which, in my mind, is a fantastic use of the Lilly money–Jeremy Axelrod delves deeply into “Shadow on a Stone,” one of the poems of grief that Thomas Hardy wrote as a response to the death of his wife. “When Hardy showed up in London at age 22, he [...]
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