Seeing the value in abstract poetry

If abstraction works well within the confines of painting or photo art, ( and I believe it does) then why should we not find similar benefit from the application of it to literary art?

Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund, seemed to recognize a value in processing abstract views in the mind, "The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. So why not the same with word phrases?

Ah! And all along you thought surreal art was throwing crap together with no rhyme or reason.
If in fact I give you a stanza of pretty straight up and down verse, it probably is not going to challenge you to do much more than quickly read through it and you are convinced that you know all there is to know about it.

It seems completely valid to me that Lucian's argument above is like looking at art initially from a broad or distant view, bringing it into focus and finally discovering more that you ever thought you could. That is the challenge that I often want to evoke with my poetry. So for those who believe such poetry is only about "word salad" or that it is the product of lazy writers who are not willing to take the time to craft something like a "Ted Kooser" poem, don't be so short sighted. There really can be more at work than meets the eye on initial glance.