Two "Theories" of Poetry

While traveling back and forth from a wonderful vacation in Florida last week, I spent much of my airplane time reading the latest issue I had of The New York Review of Books. In that issue, an article by Charles Simic quotes Tony Hoagland from his essay "Sad Anthropologists":

A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering...