Creator Bio
Meir Wieseltier
1941–2023
Meir Wieseltier was a poet, editor, essayist, and Hebrew translator. He was born in Moscow and immigrated to Israel at the age of eight. An important figure among the group known as the Tel Aviv Poets, he was a founder of the literary magazine Siman keriah. Wieseltier was poetry editor at Am Oved Publications, and he was awarded the Israel Prize in 2000.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Daddy and Mommy Went to the Movies, Ilana Stays Alone in the Armchair Looking at a Gray Book
She turns the pages, naked uncles
so naked and skinny, run and
even aunties with fannies showing
and others in pajamas as in a show
with yellow cloth stars sewed on.
And everybody so ugly and thin,
a…
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Moving Lights
At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should…
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To Be Continued
War is the continuation of politics,
and South Lebanon is the continuation of Upper Galilee:
Therefore it’s all too natural for a state
to wage war in Lebanon.
Youth is the continuation of…
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Burning Holy Books
Holy books, said my friend, angry,
there’s no such thing. Books,
books: let them talk
to us about books.
It was a hot night.
At noon light rips
through the room, and everything’s clear:
over the…