Prose as a criterion for literary intelligence, because "poems can be faked"

“Some shy from putting prose out there because it’s a giveaway. You can’t fake it. It reveals quality of mind, for better or worse, in a culture where poems can be faked. Find a faker and ask him or her to write anything more substantial than a jacket blurb, and the jig is up.”

-- W. S. Di Piero, “From a Notebook” (in Poetry, October 2006)

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