Try listening to the poem as you write it, asking yourself whether the cadences are genuinely poetry or simply delicate, or ingenious, or upgraded prose.
Mr. Robb's prose is fleet and ingenious.
After the nineteen-fifties, Mailer dictated most of his letters, but they still have the baroque flavor of the published prose — the startling conceits, the ingenious syntax, and the mordant humor — minus a lot of the bombast.
That's quite a sentence: imagine it printed as prose, and you get some sense of Donnelly's ingenious way of corralling catch-as-catch-can language within formal intervals.
Moreover, Skinner's poetic prose translation of the original verses parallels Hugo's ingenious melding of poetry and prose.
Another worthy upgraded edition of long-in-print comics is the fourth and final volume of THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN (Vertigo, $99), collecting the ingenious fantasy series that made Neil Gaiman's reputation before he was better known as a prose novelist.
The book's resonance and humor seem to dwell between the lines, in the capacity of Mr. Johnson's artful prose -- and prose in general -- to be at once more abstract and more sensual than film, however ingenious, can ever hope to be.
