relative value

This one stanza was equal to a thousand other poems.

not a word to waste

X’s bio, a poet in her thirties, begins with: “X is the author of over twenty books of poetry.”

wait it out

You could try to write more poems or you could just wait, trusting that some good ones will well up.

volume seller

It was such a book mill, it was hard to tell if the press was promoting good books or book glut.

pauca sed bona

A poet, middle-aged, stated in his bio that he was ‘the author of over 30 collections’. Yet he was virtually unknown even in the rather small world of poetry. Would that he’d authored over 50 collections made a whit of difference to his reputation?