Jeffrey Bilbro is an Assistant Professor of English at Spring Arbor University in southern Michigan. His first book is <a href="http://http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Loving-Gods-Wildness,6114.aspx"
“Poetry makes nothing happen,” Auden flatly declares in “In Memory of W. B.
Yeats [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/memory-w-b-yeats],” yet Auden goes on
to suggest that poetry is nevertheless “a way