<p>In his extraordinary book <em>Memoirs of a Minotaur: From Merrill Lynch to Patty Hearst to Poetry</em> Robin Magowan (grandson of the founder of Merrill Lynch and nephew of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century James Merrill) turns his uncompromising vision and diamond-edged language toward the emotional terrain and the kind of privileged life very few of us have known and against which he rebels.&mdash;Helen Houghton and Bill Handley</p>