I regret that an inordinate amount of space was spent on “Millay’s Child." Mr. Telman’s logic doesn’t hold water: The narrator indicates Millay was vain, Millay was a woman, therefore the narrator thinks all women are vain and the narrator is a misogynist. “After reading it, one returns to the love poems to ascertain whether Too Much Explanation Can Ruin a Man contains any poems that portray women in a positive light and as something other than objects of desire.” Bob obviously isn’t guilty of this, but what would be wrong with writing a book of poems entitled, say, “Women as Objects of Desire”? I appreciate Bob’s frankness and his unapologetically masculine voice.
[This message has been edited by Stephen Scaer (edited October 12, 2006).]
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