‘work with the word that is all’; Politics and Labour in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn

Existing accounts of Anna Mendelssohn’s poetry tend to simplify its complex relationship with politics. I argue that Mendelssohn reaches beyond the typical binary of poiesis and praxis, characteristic of the current discourse, to seek her poetic purpose in an engagement with the politics of work. Me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albinia Stanley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-10-01
Series:Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
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Online Access:https://poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/736/