Article: Secret Life.

When I read, in the July 9, 1995 New York Times Book Review, the headline of Daphne Merkin's review of Michael Ryan's Secret Life--"The Curse of Eros: The autobiography of a poet who has struggled to overcome his sex addiction"--my curiosity was piqued. In the odd world of Po-Biz, in which gossip is the principal form of news, Ryan was famous for his promiscuity, which led to his dismissal from the Princeton University faculty in 1981 after he had affairs with female undergraduates. Ryan was famous also as an excellent "younger" American poet. His first collection, Threats Instead of Trees, had won the most prestigious first-book award in the country, the Yale Series of ...

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