Drew Gardner writes:

Poetry has the capacity to deal with the nonevents of life in a way that other art forms couldn't possibly manage.

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Poetry has the capacity to deal with the nonevents of life in a way that other art forms couldn't possibly [imagine].

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Drew, now I am reeling...so much fun.

What is it that makes the sense of these statements so different by changing "manage" to "imagine"?

What does poetry manage that "other art forms" cannot? This is the question that suggested to me the replacement of imagine for manage--just to see. And then a basic problem is presented in this way,

How does poetry manage?

Many other questions worth asking, but this is a beginning nonetheless.