I'm Working Here: The Collected Poems of Anna Mendelssohn, Edited by Sara Crangle

Mendelssohn’s poems are charged, acute, and probing. 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. This scholarly edition is the first replete collection of the poems Mendelssohn published or prepared for circulation.