Implacable Art

In this first full-length collection, Anna Mendelssohn continues her explorations of power, persecution and loss. Mendelssohns work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. Her magical, weaving and at times painful lyric poetry draws us into an ecstatic vision of our own dependencies, dreams and desires.

In 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 Mendelssohns career-long exploration of persecution, loss, and the precarity of the individual. Her lyricism is both fiercely guarded and radically open, weaving esoteric wordplay and high-stakes linguistic play into a fu