Gabriel Levin’s Essay on Robert Friend’swork
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Edward Field’s Essay on Robert Friend
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Anthony Rudolf’s Obituary and Tribute
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Robert Friend’s poetry
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Photos of Robert Friend
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Feature of Friend’s work in a previous issue
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Robert Friend’s essay on TranslatingRachel at www.poetryinternationalweb.net
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Robert Friend’s translations.Copyright © Jean Shapiro Cantu
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Claude Vigée (1921 –)
Translated by Robert Friend
The Light of Evening
Back home in our childhood,
at the peak of summer
when the empty garden recovers
its afternoon silence,
the light of evening,
over the rusty gate,
flowers among the aspens:
a clarity like that of ripe peaches
hanging high in the branches
among the vine-poles of the vineyard,
on the dark, steep slopes
of the Scharrach hillsaflame.