I asked
> >>> Strange - I enjoy this kind of "still-life" poem onscreen,
> >>> but if I read them in a book they usually don't grab me.
> >>> Why???
> Roger Collett:
> >> Probably because you are distracted by the surrounding poems. On the
> >> screen a single poem demands you attention more.
mj:
> > I would say precisely because it is on a screen, not a (modern -
> > mediaeval & Renaissance printing is something else) page; it has
> > increased visuality & relatively less aurality (sic). I often have
> > trouble hearing what I read online because of that spacious visual
> > quality.
Maybe this is so for mj, but I "hear" more when reading onscreen,
possibly because the poem seems like an email from the poet and I'm
used to "hearing" the person's voice in email.
I think the screen has increased *everything*!
It is more distracting (eg, just now I have four windows open: this one,
one with emails showing part of Stephen's message with the Lorca
translation, one with poetry editing, and most distracting of all,
one with a photograph)
but also more focusing - the poem has a box around it, and there
are no touchable pages inviting my fingers to flip through them,
their poems distracting me as Roger mentions.
Also being trained as a programmer I'm used to focusing on a box.
However, from speaking to other people I get the impression that those
who have not spent years working at computers much prefer reading and
writing on paper.
My mother (73) has recently taken to email and it's just amazing how
different her emails are to her letters.
Janet
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Poems at Proximity:
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