David Schurman Wallace at Poetry Magazine:Who are poetry’s true believers? Its evangelists profess poetry’s power to change us, usually without specifying how—a claim familiar from book-jacket copy. Poets are devoted to their craft, of course, but for most, any question of the spiritual, much less a word as weighty as the divine, is fleeting. Like the rest of the world, poetry is now largely secular. To take the disappearance of the gods seriously, one had to have taken them seriously in the first place.