Creator Bio
David Avidan
1934–1995
Poet, essayist, film writer, and peace activist, David Avidan was born in Ramat-Gan and was raised at Kibbutz Geva. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was an editor and columnist for the newspaper Yediot Aḥaronot. He wrote thirty collections of poetry and the scripts for four films; his Berazim ‘arufe sefatayim (Lipless Faucets; 2001) quickly became a classic of Hebrew poetry. In 1994, Avidan was awarded the Bialik Prize.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Joke
The body of a weary man is primed like an ambulance
Adrenaline charges through his hot blood.
I will go mad if we don’t end this now.
Bizarre how a man so blind with bits of coal
Can strike so…
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Mandatory High School/Class of 1973
A young man graduates and heads off to get damaged
He’s got nothing urgent for now and though they push him around he manages
He has no water in his knees
He has no plaster in his joints
He’ll be…