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POETRY

Dancing with a Tiger: Poems 1941-1998
Edited by Edward Field, Spuyten Duyvil, New York/Menard Press, London, Spring 2003

After Catullus
The Beth-Shalom Press, Israel, 1997

The Next Room
The Menard Press, London, 1995

Abbreviations
Etcetera Editions, Israel, 1994

Somewhere Lower Down
The Menard Press, London, 1980

Selected Poems
Tambimuttu at The Seahorse Press, London, 1976

The Practice of Absence
Beth-Shalom Press, Israel, 1971

Salt Gifts
The Charioteer Press, Washington, DC, 1964

Shadow on the Sun
The Press of James A. Decker, Prairie City, Illinois, 1941

TRANSLATIONS

Found in Translation: A Hundred Years of Modern Hebrew Poetry Translated by Robert Friend, Edited and Introduced by Gabriel Levin Menard Press, London, 1999
(Poetry Book Society Recommended translation)

S.Y. Agnon: The Book Of The Alphabet
Translated by Robert Friend
The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1998

Featured Translator, "Palestinian and Israeli Poets"
Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 14, Winter 1998-99 Edited by Daniel Weissbort

Flowers of Perhaps:Selected Poems of Ra'hel Translated by Robert Friend
Menard Press, London, 1995

Featured Translator, "Second International Poets Festival, Jerusalem"
Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 4, Winter 1993-94 Edited by Daniel Weissbort

Leah Goldberg: Selected Poems
Translated by Robert Friend
Menard Press, Panjandrum Press, 1976

Gabriel Preil: Sunset Possibilities and Other Poems Translated by Robert Friend
The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1985

Natan Alterman: Selected Poems
Translated by Robert Friend
Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Israel, 1978


Poems and translations by Robert Friend have also appeared in the following:

On-line Publications

"The Drunken Boat", Summer 2000, Issue II
Edited by Charles Fishman and Rebecca Seiferle A feature on Robert Friend included six translations, three poems and a biography

Radio
Three poems recited by Garrison Keillor in "The Writer's Almanac," January 2003

Musical Compositions
Translation of Alterman's "The Third Mother" featured in Sharon Farber's
chorale, "The Third Mother"

Translation of Ra'hel's "Michal" featured in Andrea Clearfield's oratorio, Women
of Valor

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals:

Poetry, March 2003 (five poems)
Rita Dove's 'Poet's Choice" in The Washington Post, July 22 and 29,2001
The Potomac News, Prince William County, Virginia, April 1, 2000

The New York Times
The New Yorker
The Jerusalem Post
The Independent
The Atlantic
Commentary
The Christian Science Monitor
The New Republic
Partisan Review
Prairie Schooner
Quarterly Review of Literature
Jerusalem Review
Hadassah Magazine
The London Magazine
European Judaism
Forward
Jewish Frontier
Tel Aviv Review
Light
Encounter
Ariel
Israel Life and Letters
Delos
Shirim: A Jewish Poetry Journal
Arc 3
5 A.M.
Bay Windows
Midstream


Poems and Translations in Anthologies/Textbooks/Literary Criticism:

Carol Efrati: The Road of Danger, Guilt, and Shame: The Lonely Way of A.E.Housman, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002

The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present, Edited by Shirley Kaufman et al, Feminist Press, City University of NY, 1999

The Second First Art: Poetry in Translation and Essays on the Art of Translating
in Honor of Aaron Kramer
, Edited by Susan L. Rosenstreich, Editions D'Autrui,
Southold, NY, 1996

1980 Anthology (Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition), 1982 The View from the Top of the Mountain, the Barnard Press Cooperative, Daleville, Indiana 1981

The View from the Top of the Mountain, 1981
New Poetry 6, Hutchinson, London, 1980

Voices Within the Ark, Avon Books, 1980

A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, Bantam Books, 1979

The New York Times Book of Verse, Macmillan, 1970

The New Yorker Book of Poems, Viking Press, 1969

New Poetry 6, edited by Ted Hughes

The Burning Bush: Poems from Modern Israel, W.H. Allen, London, 1977

Contemporary Israeli Literature, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977

Guest Editor, Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 22, 1974

Nature of Life and Death, Walters-Noordhoff-Longman, Groningen, Holland, 1973
Who Ever Loves, , Walters-Noordhoff-Longman, Groningen, Holland, 1972

Writer's Journal: Experiments, Harcourt, Brace, 1972

Working with Poetry by John Shaw and Prudence Dyer, Educators Publishing
Service, Cambridge, MA, 1968

Anthology of Modern Hebrew Poetry, Israel Universities Press, Jerusalem, 1967

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1958

A Treasury of Jewish Poetry, Crown Books, 1957

Love Dreams, Scholastic Book Service, New York and London, n.d.
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