living document

A poem is a living document.

living lit

Literature is the ultimate living document.

market in action

If you want to gauge the current esteem (and value) of poets, those dead and some older living ones, then peruse the pages of a rare book dealer’s sales catalog. Is the name even there, and what kind of prices are listed for the books and other collectible literary material?

the living and the dead

Had he reached a tipping point where he could recall more dead poets than living ones?

it's alive

For a dead thing, poetry sure is a bulging, brimming, humming, oozing, teeming, squiggling and generally astir thing.

voluptuary of one's vocabulary

A poet living large in the voluptuary of his vocabulary.