Poet Billy Collins Thinks eBooks Ruin Poetry
Are eBooks bad for reading poetry? Poet Billy Collins thinks so. After seeing his poems on an eReader and finding stanzas broken up and lines split when changing font size, he was not amused.
The writer complained that form is part of poetry and the eBooks are not formatted to keep this form. From the AP, “‘I found that even in a very small font that if the original line is beyond a certain length, they will take the extra word and have it flush left on the screen, so that instead of a three-line stanza you actually have a four-line stanza.
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