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This exhibition adopts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW35767200 BCX4\"\u003eCAConrad’s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW35767200 BCX4\"\u003e method of reproducing their poems in scaled spatial installations to similarly present and interpolate nine unpublished Mendelssohn poem-drawings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW35767200 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"fruitmarketbookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58006162669952,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0267\/6332\/9713\/files\/Unknown-1.jpg?v=1781618037"},{"product_id":"implacable-art-by-anna-mendelssohn","title":"Implacable Art by Anna Mendelssohn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this landmark first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn emerges as one of the most singular and formidable voices of the late twentieth-century avant-garde. ‘Implacable Art’ is a work of restless transformation, where the poetic page becomes a site of intense resistance against the narrowing effects of modern power and state surveillance. The collection continues Mendelssohn’s career-long exploration of persecution, loss, and the precarity of the individual.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer lyricism is both fiercely guarded and radically open, weaving esoteric wordplay and high-stakes linguistic play into a ‘fugitive’ poetics that refuses to be categorized. By treating words as magical objects capable of re-enchanting a world shaped by alienation, Mendelssohn challenges the reader to look beyond official language and accepted histories. 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Part aesthetic treatise (“a poem is not going to give precise directions”); part antipolitical manifesto (“the war is too close \/ for revolution to be understood”); part lament (“softly the sound of woe \/ gallops”); part celebration of poetic sound and possibility (“I worship at the shrine of poetry”), Mendelssohn’s writing resolutely resists containment or category. 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Her texts often hover on the edges of communicability, yet testify to a consistent belief in the transformative power of aesthetic form. Mendelssohn composed over 700 notebooks, which are now held in the University of Sussex archives in Brighton.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003eThe book brings together a selection of previously published poems and secondary literature as well as archival material and newly conceived translations of her poems into German. 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