“As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.”
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Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
