September 28, 2006
The grass is always greener
In lieu of a daytime post, and perhaps of any real post today at all, a quote from "Semba!: A Notebook," by W.S. Di Piero, published in the October issue of Poetry: "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." Surely he must know how much, and how easily, prose is likewise faked, and how those of us who write it feel about the best poetry.
Elsewhere in the piece, Di Piero describes the Whitney Biennial as a "striptease of competing voguish infantilisms." I don't necessarily agree, but like the phrase. More later, perhaps tomorrow.