Reaction to Chris Martins Poems from "American Music"

The one thing that stood out about Chris Martin's poetry is that it's very unconventional. In most of his poems, he uses lines of different lengths, and breaks the lines in awkward, unexpected places. In the second to last stanza of his poem surviving desire, he says "Topple, transubstantiation/ fails, we fall into knowing before/ we know that". The style of his poetry gives the reader the desire to pause at the line breaks, but then, throws in punctuation, such as a comma, telling  the reader to pause. Something about the style of his poetry makes me want to pause at the line breaks as well as the commas (even when I try not to), and this makes it hard for for his poetry to flow as I read it. Although his poetry is more of a challenge for me to read, I do admire how he challenges the way poetry is normally written. He does something different, and writes in a way that no other poets do, which makes his poetry much more interesting and entertaining to read.