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Finis origine pendet," the Roman poet Manlius wrote. "The end depends on the beginning." Success in life hinges on how well we are reared--and what we learn in school. More than ever these days, getting off to a good start in college can make the difference between getting a degree and giving up. That makes the passage from teenager at home to first-year college student one of the most stressful and important transitions in life...
...Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease and here it is, already gone, alas, alas...
...occurs in a different dimension, a different part of the mind, and, quite literally, in a different region of time. While autobiography demands artifice, it also requires introspection and an order of a ruthless candor. What would Franklin Roosevelt's autobiography have been like? Dodgey piffle, perhaps. King and poet have different roles to play...
...viable alternative, industry sources tell PW. The reason? As Border's spokesman puts it, "It's the price, stupid." GOING POSTAL: PW is thrilled by 'Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son' (Bloomsbury; September), giving it a starred review. The letters are a correspondence between the late poet Allen Ginsberg and his poet father, Louis. "Some of the most astonishing correspondence in American literature...In the end, for all their virtuosity, the Ginsbergs' literary talent emerges as the lesser gift in comparison to their honesty and mutual affection. Anyone interested in either Ginsberg, the Beats, American poetry...
...Longfellow is generally considered to be a sentimental poet with little depth by those who read only his popular poems,” he said...