Yeah, Mark, I would have to agree, especially because of the power
differential. I certainly managed to maintain 'distance' & on the
whole it meant that the students who later became friends did so
because we shared interests, as in, say, modern poetry or SF, rather
than some 'romance'....
As for Wolcott, yes, the notoriety is there, may tales circulating, &
he seems to find at least some of them sources of one kind of male
pride.
How that al relates to his poetry & any particular person's response
to it, well . . .?
Doug
On 13-May-09, at 4:01 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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> I have a very rigid code about these things. That a lot of
> inappropriate behavior happens doesn't excuse it.
Douglas Barbour
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