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Thanks for all your suggestions and interest. I'm embarrassed to have to report that the text is not vertical after all. The author has distributed the several verses of this poem across adjoining left and right pages in the paperback. The publisher supplied a doc file as the source text, and put the conjoined two pages in the in the doc file in such a way that when I read those two pages the text appeared to be in vertical orientation.
The text of both pages has to be seen together to make any sense of the poem - I mentioned it was avant garde. So my current question is: how on earth can I format the poem so as to display both 'pages' when only one page is available at a time on 6" ebook readers? Turning the ereader to landscape mode won't work in this poem at a readable size font because there is just too much text.
I now have a pdf of the poem, but the author is away at the moment so I can't ask her permission to upload it. I'll ask for permission when she gets back next week, and if she grants it I'll upload the pdf. I also need to ask just how much importance she places on the visual appearance of her work. I suspect it's really important to her.
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