Will Poetry Lose Its Meaning In An eBook?

EBooks and poetry do not go hand in hand. With the ability to zoom in, change fonts and change text size on eBooks, you run the risk of losing meaning. Imagine changing the spacing of an Ezra Pound poem, whose visual presentation is part of the work.

Craig Morgan Teicher at Publisher’s Weekly blogged recently about his dismay when trying to read an eBook version of Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems and found the liniation was all messed up.