That was to get your attention, but it’s also true. The poem is below, after my remarks.
Brief background: the first Superman story appeared in Action Comics #1 (creators: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) and was on newsstands in May 1938. Four years later, in the middle of the Second World War, Nabokov writes this poem and submits it to the New Yorker. It gets rejected.
This poem from 1942, which just recently was published for the first time ever, is an impressive achievement. In 46 lines, Nabokov shows solid understanding of a major American…
