What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
Poems can also convey understanding through rhythm and cadence, much like a prayer or a chant. This kind of knowledge feels occult, primal, and necessary for me, but it's elusive outside of poetry. Poems can also convey the specificity of experience in a way that I don't think other forms can, possibly because poetry enacts sensory, synesthetic experiences and allows for layered, non-linear ways of understanding.
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