James Simmons wrote:
I don't think there is any poetry in this book but what seems to work acceptably on the Kindle is to use a blockquote to set off the poem and use 's for indenting of individual lines. Or just use 's without the blockquote. You don't get that hanging indent that printed books have, but the Kindle doesn't know from hanging indents.
The Kindle will quite happily do hanging indents; it just isn't possible to get at them by letting Kindlegen work on your HTML+CSS. For example, take a look at http://books.hisdeedsaredust.com/test/aa-sample.mobi Go to location 128, the paragraph beginning "Copy of a letter from Christopher ..." The first line of this paragraph is indented 1em from the left, and subsequent lines are indented 3em.