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To the Moon

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This is the first book of poetry I tried in the Kindle format. Not successful. Even adjusting the font sizes for different poems, the layout is uncertain (lines that run over at the right go flush left). For modern poems, you don't know if what you are seeing is what was intended or not. You can't skip and page, unless you search by a remembered special word. For poems longer than one page, you have to click forward to know who the poet is. So I started reading them from the end.
Duffy has, by the way, collected here poems by different poets in which the moon appears, for English translations from ancient Greek, up to the present, including some ancient Asians, Ted Hughes, a Silvia Plath, one by herself, some lovely Dylan Thomas ... But it's not the kind of collection that one marches through. So this trial tells me something about what a book of poetry is, too.