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 Dancing
With A Tiger,
Poems 1941-1998 by Robert Friend
Edited by Edward Field ; Introduction by Gabriel Levin
ISBN 1-881471-21-7 $14.00 US
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His is an open and song-like gift. Richard
Wilbur
I was affected deeply by the lines to your mother,
'The tide
may sweep
but cannot 'whelm your breast, your continent of love must
sweep it
back.'
Marianne Moore
I do like your poems—they produce happiness, as real
poetry
does.
Iris Murdoch
Until Robert Friend translated his selection of
Ra'hel's
poems, they had
defied every attempt to render them in English. Now,
because of his own
ability as a poet and because of a temperament congenial to
hers, his
translations make it possible for readers of English to
understand why
Ra'hel is so highly esteemed. Yehuda
Amichai
If there was
any rank
to which he aspired it was poet, and I use the word
rank here consciously. For Robert this was the highest
title any-one
could
achieve. He turned toward it when he was a child with a
certain purity
of
heart which he never lost, and remained faithful to it
until the moment
he died.
Lois
Bar-Yaakov, Jerusalem
Post, January 22, 1998
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