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Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016, Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy in 2018.

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By Jeffrey Meyers on July 30, 2020
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Which Political Leader is Described?

By Jeffrey Meyers on July 21, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers “He never worked in the accepted sense of the word.  He never read any books or magazines and never felt any need…

Tolstoy’s Governess

By Jeffrey Meyers on June 24, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers I was a young English woman, well educated, innocent and unworldly, but spirited and in search of adventure for which I was…

Waste

By Jeffrey Meyers on April 19, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.” —Wordsworth “You wouldn’t want to see her, and she wouldn’t want you to…

Shame

By Jeffrey Meyers on March 28, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers I woke in a dark room from a troubled dream and didn’t at first know where I was.  Then I remembered that…

Sex, Lies and Voyeurs

By Jeffrey Meyers on March 2, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers Family fights are the worst; they leave the deepest wounds and cause the greatest pain.  Since everyone’s version of what happened was…

Fallen Friends at Fallen Leaf

By Jeffrey Meyers on November 1, 2019

Roger chugged up to the woodsy landing in a metal rowboat with a spluttering outboard motor.  He wore a slouch hat, torn shirt, baggy trousers…

Hermann Kafka’s Defense: A Letter to My Son

By Jeffrey Meyers on September 14, 2019

In cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son and father. —King Lear Mein lieber Sohn, I just found…

Worshipping the Golden Calf

By Jeffrey Meyers on August 24, 2019

He had made it a molten calf: and they said: “These be thy gods.” —Exodus 32:4 Desperate, despised and dumb, a dancing bear, With Musso’s…



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