This course aims to focus on the Hebrew poetic production within a single year, 1955, in order to advance a new mode of literary historiography. Following Margaret Cohen's concept of "the great unread," by which she criticizes the limited number of texts read by literary historians who focus solely on canonical masterpieces, this course will look at myriad texts published within a limited time span. 1955 is a particularly interesting test case, for it gives expression to many conflicting political and literary ideologies following the establishment of the state in 1948 and the subsequent rise of statehood generation poetry.