There is no student of poetry I know that doesn't value buying and owning books. Most of these same students consider lattes a luxury, but it shouldn't matter, because it's not like wanting to have both good poetry and good coffee is an excessive demand. It's easy to dismiss student poverty as a "familiar plea," it even might seem to make sense when you say "a book is only three lattes" (though they're actually four) but these were primarily distributed within a graduate student context where it is expected, even required, to read upwards of 50 or 100 books a year. What's that in latte $?