"Poetry has always played a significant role in my life," Hannah Arendt once confessed.

This book presents a rather unknown aspect of her writing activity: the poems she wrote, although never published.

Collected and commented on by Karin Biro, Arendt's poems complement the image we have of this important philosopher, proving that poetry and reflection can coexist.
As she herself wrote: "Poets find or shape the words with which we live," and her philosophy is a philosophy whose main concern is life. Life that is threatened, life that is oppressed, life that we desire, life that we constantly recreate through the spirit.