Francis King

Short and sweet | 22 May 2010

This little book of limericks, some as hard and glittering as shards of mica but a few surprisingly pallid and limp, at once presents a puzzle: the real name of an author is no more likely to be Jeff Chaucer than the real name of the author of a play would be Billie Shakespeare.

issue 22 May 2010

  • A Garden of Erses

    Jeff Chaucer

    Orchises Press, P.O. Box 320533, Alexandria, Virginia, 22320-4533, USA, pp. 48

This little book of limericks, some as hard and glittering as shards of mica but a few surprisingly pallid and limp, at once presents a puzzle: the real name of an author is no more likely to be Jeff Chaucer than the real name of the author of a play would be Billie Shakespeare.

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