I never liked poetry. I liked certainty and clarity, and poetic language was bafflingly ambiguous. It seemed to function like an artsy garnish on a food platter: ornamental, inedible, and totally pointless. I’m not alone—according to a 2017 survey by the National Endowment for the Arts, less than 12 percent of the U.S. population had read a single poem in the last year.

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