Implacable Art by Anna Mendelssohn

Implacable Art by Anna Mendelssohn

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 Mendelssohn's 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 '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.Moving between 'explosive' political confrontation and the quiet, minor confusions of daily life, Implacable Art offers an ecstatic and at times painful vision of our shared dependencies and desires. It is a work of profound imaginative inventiveness - a testament to the necessity of art as a means of survival and a howl of defiance that remains as vital and audacious today as when it was first published.

Tireless anthologist Nicholas Royle resurrects an erstwhile Heinemann series, dormant since 1994Lee Rourke's 'Emergency Exit' and Alan Beard's 'Staff Development' interrogate office life. Hilary Mantel's 'Comma' seems like a horror story, only to transform into something much sadder. Philip Langeskov's 'Notes on a Love Story' is Sebaldian in the way it shimmers between story, essay and documentary fragment. Let's hope this series becomes an annual fixture. -- Chris Power The Guardian

Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), who wrote under the name Grace Lake, was a British writer, poet and political activist. She came from a left-wing political family, was inspired by the Paris student risings in May 1968, and became a political radical in Britain. Mendelsohn was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions as part of The Angry Brigade, a ruling she insisted was unjust. After her release she raised a family, resumed her education and devoted her life to art and to poetry. She grew somewhat isolated from the rest of society, but her friends saw to it that some of her work was published.

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ISBN 13	9781876857004
ISBN 10	1876857005
Title	Implacable Art
Author	Anna Mendelssohn
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2000-08-01
Number of pages	152
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