Dancing with a Tiger Poems 1941-1998

American born Israeli ex-pat and for very long openly gay poet Robert Friend's selected poetry appears for the first time in an american edition. Introduction by Academy award nominated screenwriter, poet and novelist Edward Field (author of The Villagers.) Friend belongs to that line of master technicians which includes Richard Wilbur and Anthony Hecht. He is always immensely readable, a poet of wit and tact and that under-rated poetic virtue, charm. –Jewish Chronicale Classic american 20th century poetry by neglected master.