"Internationally renowned as one of the twentieth century's foremost public intellectuals, Hannah Arendt was also intensely private. Though she often acknowledged that the language of poetry--especially that of Dickinson, Rilke, and Lowell--informed her work, only trusted friends knew that Arendt herself wrote poems. In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote more than seventy poems, many of them signposts in an otherwise unwritten autobiography. For nearly forty years, these poems were buried in the archives of the Library of Congress, until 2011, when they were rediscovered by scholar and translator Samantha Rose Hill. Now, for the first time in English, Hill and Genese Grill present all of Arendt’s poems in chronological order, taking us from the brief zenith of the Weimar Republic to the Cold War, and from Marburg, Germany, to New York’s Upper West Side"-- Dust jacket flap.
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