Books

My suggestion — and you probably won’t like it — is to read it out loud. The secret to poetry: you actually just blast through those line breaks, indents, etc. and don’t stop until there’s punctuation and then treat it appropriately. It’ll feel super cringey and uncomfortable, but this will make the actual eye motion and reading part a lot easier with a little practice! Sure it looks structured and weird on the page, but it’s generally not meant to be read that way. It should sound more like natural language, and honestly, once I learned to ignore everything but punctuation for a first read through, it clicked so much faster.