Isn't Anglo-American culture an anomaly in how detached poetic and musical creation are from each other?

Marcel Khalife sings Mahmoud Darwish's Ommi

In this respect Arabic culture is more "normal" in global terms than ours. You could find comparable settings of contemporary poets in French, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Urdu, Bengali... but if it happens in English it's something to be remarked on.