Poem
3 volumes
I Was Happy with Hitler Described
Luz Mendiluce Thompson — Nazi Literature in the Americas · Roberto Bolaño
A poem, misunderstood by the Right and the Left alike, by the only talented writer in an Argentine clan that had had its baby photographed in Hitler's arms.
The Oak Tree Described
Orlando — Orlando · Virginia Woolf
A poem begun by a boy in an Elizabethan oak park and finished by a woman in a motor-car, about the English land, taking three hundred years because the poet had to become several people first.
Pale Fire Nearly complete
John Francis Shade — Pale Fire · Vladimir Nabokov
A poem in four cantos, 999 lines, about a man's life, his daughter's death, and the persistence of pattern — printed in full, then kidnapped by a commentator who is sure it is about him.