Great Regulars: I no longer needed to make the gear shift

that is generally required when you pick up a volume of poetry after reading prose; my ear was attuned to poetry's rhythms, and my eye--accustomed to the sight of poetry on the page--became far quicker at detecting themes, echoes and linguistic flourishes (reading the collections back to back also, of course, allowed me to arrive at qualitative judgments with far greater speed and conviction).

from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: The great poetry binge

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