Words and phrases that are only found in poetry collections

 

From Forrest Gander’s foreword to An Ethic, by Christina Davis:

 

Ligatures

Gnomic
A mere parenthesis of our shared condition

Irruptive

A form of discretion
Lineation

A code of relation

Vitreous

Imbricated 

From Song & Error by Averill Curdy:

Pelagic

Gold-vermeiled

Anodyne

Effulgences

Vinegarroons

Vitrines

Tisane

Cochineal

Festinates

Stridulent

Ocherous

Mordant

Exigent

Adumbrated

Bursal

Dysenteric

Clerestory