Books & the Arts / Daniel Poppick’s Novel of White-Collar Work The first novel by the poet asks us what fantasies get us through the day? (CSA-Printstock / Getty Images)“Money is a kind of poetry,” Wallace Stevens, the insurance executive better known as a poet, once wrote. The Copywriter, poet Daniel Poppick’s first novel, begins with a moment of corporate seduction. Faced with work that one suspects is utterly meaningless, a person might adopt narrower and narrower parameters for meaning. Part of the tension of the novel is that D__ really does want to draw a line, in part to separate his “real” writing from the work he does to make money.