portions of the book, it is not surprising that [John] Shade's subtle, meticulously wrought poem should have received short shrift. Most readers tend to think of the poem as the grace that must be perfunctorily said before we sit down to the meal of the commentary. It is this imbalance that a new edition of "Pale Fire" seeks to redress. In a move that is likely to irritate and scandalize many, Gingko Press has lifted Shade's poem from [Vladimir] Nabokov's novel and published it as a separate book. (They are not, incidentally, the first to have done this.)That's not all, however.
from The New Yorker: "Pale Fire," the Poem: Does It Stand Alone as a Masterpiece?
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