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　　Poet Dean Young has dealt with impermanence(无常)a lot in his career, but it's a particularly strong theme in Young's latest collection, Fall Higher．The new collection was published in April, just days after the poet received a life-saving heart transplant(移植)after about a decade of living with a weakening heart condition．

　　Young, whoso work is often frank and rich with twisted humor, tells NPR's Renee Montaigne that as he recovers from operation, he's also slowly returning to his everyday writing habits．

　　"I'm getting back to it, " Young says．"Not with the sort of concentration and sort of flame that I look forward to in the future, but I am blackening some pages．"

　　And on those blackened pages you'll find poems like " How Grasp Green, " which carries themes of springtime and rebirth．It's one of the first poems Young has written since his transplant．

　　It's easy to spot clues(线索)to Young's awful health situation in the lines of his poetry．Fall Higher's "Vintage" opens with, "Because I will die soon, I fall asleep, during the lecture on the ongoing emergency．" And the poem "-The Rhythms Pronounce Themselves Then Vanish-published in The/Vew Barker in February -opens with the CT scan that revealed Young's heart condition．

　　Young says "Rhythms" was written about the beginning of his illness．

　　"I had been having a lot of physical pain so that I could hardly walk a block．I got sent to a gastroenterologist and he did a series of tests, and then the tests came back to me and it was all heart related, " he says．" And the outlook wasn't good．

　　Hearts tend to come up a lot in poetry, and that's especially true of Young's work, which has clearly been influenced by the troubles of his own heart,

　　"A lot of times, it's not just a metaphor(比喻), " Young says．"For me, it's an actual concern because I've been living with this disease for over 10 years．My father died of heart problems when he was 49, so it's been a sort of shadowy concern for me my whole life．

　　But Young's poems also deal with more abstract matters of the．heart．He wrote Fall Higher's, "Late Valentine" for his wife．"We've been married since late November and most of it has been spent in the hospital, " Young says of his marriage to poet Laurie Saurborn Young, who says " 'Late Valentine' is very sweet．

　　Today, Young says, his friends can't help but comment on how pink his cheeks have become-the result of a new heart and better circulation(循环)．But Young wrote the poems of Fall Higher before the transplant, at a time when, at its weakest point, his old heart was pumping at 8 percent of what it should have been．

　　He was staring death in the face-but he was still able to look at his life and see art in it．

　　Young's work also touches on themes of randomness and fate-two factors that contributed to him getting a second chance in the form of a new heart from a 22-year-old student．

　　"Everything in life is molecules(分子)bouncing against molecules, " Young says, and having a successful transplant is no different．" Somebody had to die; it had to be a fit; my blood and his blood had to not have an argument; the heart had to be transported; I had to get it．"

　　There were, in short, an amazing number of variables(变量)that led to Young being here today．

　　"I just feel enormous gratitude, " he says of his donor(捐献者)．"He gave me a heart so I'm still alive-"I'm sure I'm going to think about this person for the rest of my life．"

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　　The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said humorously,“England and America are two nations divided by a common language．If he were writing today, he might add”divided by a common technology-E-mail．

　　Two completely different styles of e-mail have formed on either side of the Atlantic-Euromail and Amerimail．Amerimail is informal and chatty．It's likely to begin with a“Hi”and end with a“Bye”．The chances of Amerimail containing a smiley face or an“xoxo”are disturbingly high．We Americans are unwilling to dive into the meat of an e-mail．We feel we have to first inform recipients(收信人)about our vacation on the island which was really excellent except the jellyfish were biting and the kids caught a bad cold, so we had to skip the whale watching trip, but about that investors' meeting in New York…．Amerimail is a bundle of contradictions(矛盾), casual and yet direct, respectful yet over proud．In other words, Amerimail is America．

　　Euromail is stiff and cold often beginning with a formal“Dear Mr．X”and ending with a simple“Sincerely”．You won't find any mention of kids or the weather or jellyfish in Euromail．It's all business．It's also slow．Your correspondent(通信者)might take days even weeks to answer a message．Euromail is exactly like the Europeans themselves．

　　Recently about 100 managers were asked on both sides of the Atlantic whether they noticed differences in e-mail styles．Most said yes．Here are a few of their observations：

　　“Americans tend to write(e-mails)exactly as they speak．”

　　“Why don't you just call me instead of writing five e-mails back and forth?”

　　“Europeans are less interested in checking e-mail”．

　　“In general, Americans are much more responsive to e-mail-they respond faster and provide more information．'

　　So which is better, Euromail or Amerimail?I realize it's not popular these days to suggest we have anything to learn from Europeans, but I'm fed up with an inbox filled with casual, barely meaningful e-mails from friends and colleagues．If the alternative is a few earnestly written, carefully worded bits of Euromail, then I say：“Bring it on．”

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