Great Regulars: When he [Billy Collins] adjusted the size

to large print, his work was changed beyond recognition, a single line turning into three, "which is quite distressing," he adds.

Poetry, the most precise and precious of literary forms, is also so far the least adaptable to the growing e-book market. A three-line stanza might be expanded to four if a line is too long or a four-line stanza compressed into three if the second and fourth lines have sharp indentations, as with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hymn to the Night."

from Hillel Italie: Associated Press: Breaking up is hard: Poems a tough fit in e-form

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