This poetry was a poetry meant to be read loudly, breathlessly, full-throttle, full of sonic energy and internal rhyme. It felt less like a communication from a speaker to a reader and more like sheet music for a reader to perform with their own voice.
Over at Lit Hub, Michael Dumanis explains how he found the link between languages through poetry.
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