currency trade

If poetry is a kind of money it’s as mysterious in value as bitcoin.

just jossing

Wallace Stevens once quipped (in his “Adagia”), “Poetry is a kind of money.” Which always makes me wonder, What kind of currency?: Confederate?, counterfeit?, or joss money? Yes, joss, I think I can smell it burning to favor the dead.

exchange value

A poor country whose only currency was words, and thereby poetry was held dear.