{"product_id":"9781350421813","title":"Incarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn Serve Your Own Sentences","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIncarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eServe Your Own Sentences\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEleanor Careless | Daniel Katz | Steven Yao\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the University English Book Prize 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn's reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMendelssohn was herself incarcerated in Holloway women's prison between 1971-76, and her bold and inventive poetry foregrounds and subverts, but does not triumphantly overcome, conditions of constraint. Informed by extensive original archival research, this book reads her highly experimental lyric alongside the poetry of her forerunners and contemporaries, including Nancy Cunard, Muriel Rukeyser and Denise Riley, restoring to view a lost network of radical, Jewish and feminist modernism. With chapters on the poetry of the Spanish Civil War, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Women's Liberation Movement, the transformation of HMP Holloway in the 1970s and prison abolitionism, \u003ci\u003eIncarceration in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the historical, political and literary contexts that shape this work and argues that Mendelssohn advances a poetics not of emancipation, but of abolition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEleanor Careless is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, UK.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350421813\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e264\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.12\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936342573196,"sku":"9781350421813","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_6f5ae120-c566-45c9-9524-3e5e13e28f61.jpg?v=1786018303","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350421813","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}