Kindle Makes Its Way into Contemporary Poetry
Surely something is important if today’s poets are writing about it. And it’s National Poetry Month, so what better time to read a poem. In the new issue of Poetry Magazine, poet Robyn Schiff mentions Amazon’s wireless reading device in a poem about the H1N1 virus.
Here’s an excerpt (click here to read the whole poem):
I’m taking my temperature again;
my thermometer is digital and pink
and its beep is my namebeing read from the book of life,
which is available on Kindle
and allows me to avoid the public librarybut contains peculiar punctuation
errors and is transcribed by
evangelists while they waitin line at gates you can’t see from here.
Is
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