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Dorit Weisman

Poet and translator Dorit Weisman was born in Kfar-Saba in 1950.
She lives in Jerusalem and teaches poetry workshops.
She was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew writers in 2003.
Weisman published 6 volumes of poetry:
Where Did you meet the Cancer, 2006 which won the Acum Prize;
Dancing Csardas with you - parting from mother, 2005;
What Do the Baobab Trees Stand for, 2003;
The Days I Visited the cuckoo's nest, 1999, which won the Yehuda-Amichi Prize for Poetry (2003);
Don't Know the Way of a Girl With a Dress, 1998
A Tiger Roars Against Me. 1993,

Weisman translated from English poems and short stories of Charles Bukowski, and
published anthology - Till the fingers begin to Bleed (2002) (3rd edition came out in
2005).

Weisman made in 2006 a documentary-poetic film - Looking for the Peach Orchard
(research, photography and directing), a film of 28 minutes about search for family
roots in Hungary.

She holds of a Master's degree in Hebrew Literature from Ben-Gurion University

More about Weismna you can read at:
* PIW - an international poetry site
* Teranova



I do not want / Dorit Weisman

I do not want to be
a breast poet.

I wanted my breasts to be healthy and hidden,
taken for granted, not written about

and certainly not by me. My hands shake.
Someone sings about leaves in the wind.

My mother asks how I can manage
and dance too.

Yellow fluid leaves a stain
a nurse said would come out in the wash.

Another one stands behind me, watching,
she wants to put a hand on my head.

The spotlights dim, darkening
the room.


Translation: Liza Katz