Lucas Myers was a friend of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Hughes" sister Olwyn, Assia Weevil and Hughes" widow Carol. His memoir draws on his forty-year correspondence with Hughes (now in the Hughes archive at Emory University) and discusses Birhtday Letters, the late Poet Laureate"s collection of poems about Sylvia Plath and their marriage, and Plath"s recently published complete Journals 1950-1962.