Creator Bio
Aryeh Sivan
1929–2015
Aryeh Sivan, a poet and translator, was born Aryeh Bornstein in Tel Aviv. He enlisted in the Palmach in 1947 and fought in the 1948 War. Sivan was a member of the pivotal Likrat literary group. He also wrote one of the most celebrated Hebrew-language detective mysteries, Adonis (1992), and was awarded the Brenner Prize in 1989. In 2010, Sivan received the Israel Prize for Poetry.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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I Protest
I wipe the dust off my books
with a small t-shirt, an old t-shirt
which was once my son’s. We have
more dust this summer than last,
and its composition is different…