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Alan Myers

Alan Myers (18 August 1933 – 8 August 2010) was an acclaimed translator of Russian literature into English. He taught History and English at a grammar school in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England. He contributed to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Foundation, and other magazines.

Poetry

Winter 1979

1972

By Joseph Brodsky, translated by Alan Myers

From the Russian.  Birds don’t fly through my skylight nowadays. A girl, like a beast, guards her noble place. If I chance to slip up on nobody’s cherry-stone, I don’t […]