fee for fee

Literary presses trading permission fees.

risked capital

A good critic is a market maker.

that poetry

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That poetry remains a broad permission.

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That poetry is a controlled vocabulary for what fails to come to market.

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That poetry is open to faithless arguments.

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That poetry is a wilderness prior to philosophy.

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That poetry is endlessly establishing conditions for fair use.

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That within the poem a coming to terms may also mean a refusal to concede.

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That the poem will not suffer its camouflage.

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That the ‘voice of the poet’ is essentially an argument.

[A selection from a grouping indexed as 'key: SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS']

—A Maxwell, Peeping Mot (Apogee Press, 2013)

selling short

The poor poet kept trying to sell out.

open outcry

On the language's trading floor, poets buy & sell words furiously in open outcry.