[HELP] Can someone explain Carl Philips to me please?

I know he’s won a bunch of awards and is widely respected and praised. There’s only one of his poems I get and I think he’s probably brilliant and I just don’t get it 😭.

I am also having trouble with his work bc he said “every poem after 9/11 is a 9/11 poem” his reasoning being that the world changed so all poems written after reflect that automatically. I kind of disagree. Thoughts?