@artkavanagh I know what you mean. The book I found that quote in is really interesting. It’s a study of what a poetic career is through the lens of poets first books. Zuba makes visible in a really compelling way the tension between “poet” as a profession and the way the trappings of professionalism have and can be used to call a poet’s authenticity into question, by readers and by the poets themselves. I’m sure I have not his thesis justice there, but it’s in that general direction.