| Sumario: | This essay examines Hebrew poetry written and/or reread in the aftermath of the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. Using Haim Gouri's poem "I Live Now in an Old Book" as a central metaphor, and the interpretive frameworks of Alan Mintz and David Roskies, I argue that contemporary Hebrew poets respond to catastrophe through an ongoing dialogue with earlier Jewish texts, biblical narratives and modern Hebrew literary traditions. Special attention is given to poems by Israeli women poets, whose works reframe inherited literary models through gender-conscious perspectives that exemplify continuity, innovation and critique, providing language and interpretive frameworks through which contemporary women's trauma can be expressed and understood.
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