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Craig Morgan Teicher's report on the problem of publishing poetry for ebooks:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/46615-diverging-digital-roads-poetry-and-e-books.html
My response to Teicher's piece (PW won't accept my google account to allow me to comment directly there)
is:
what problem?
Most verse written in the AngloAmerican tradition should fit quite easily on such escreens, especially the ones that can be turned sideways, no?
And if there is a problem with some contemporary texts,
the answer to that problem for those authors, is simple:
Stop with those prosey long lines—
write poetry instead: you know, decasyllabics, blank verse, etc . . .
any line longer than the hendecasyllabic is already in danger of being contaminated by prose,
or indeed may be a form of prose.
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