Poetic Acrobat: the Poetry of Ronny Someck Yair Mazor In a captivating dance of poetry and prose, combined with images by noted Israeli artists, Poetic Acrobat offers a deep and compassionate contemplation of diverse works by Israeli poet Ronny Someck. An insightful, elegant and eloquent study of one of Israel's young and established poets by one of Hebrew literature's major literary critics. Poetic Acrobat is an aesthetic portrait of an intriguing poet against a backdrop of seminal literary trends. Someck's fascinating poetic inner world, his urban yet somewhat fictional reality, his imagery, themes, syntax and style, are unfolded through Mazor's sophisticated and sensitive inquiry, analyzing in close reading some twenty poems in the poet's nine books. Mazor's analysis may be deemed as critics poetry by itself; he is versed in the contemporary world and Israeli verses, thus enriching the scope and depth of his reading. " Moshe Pelli, PhD, Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Central Florida Dr. Yair Mazor is a professor of Hebrew Literature with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. To date, Dr. Mazor has authored 19 scholarly books and over 200 articles and reviews. He was awarded the Friedman Prize as "The Most Distinguished Scholar of Hebrew Literature in the USA" (1998) and the "University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Distinguished Teaching Award" (1999).