Ānchah mī-mānad: Majmūʻah-yi shiʻr-i jahān Persiska (Farsi) 2025

What Remains: The Collected Poems reveals a lesser-known side of Hannah Arendt, a thinker best known for her philosophical and political writings, but for whom poetry also formed an important part of her intellectual and personal life. The collection shows that Arendt’s world cannot be understood solely through concepts such as politics, freedom, responsibility, and history; experiences of solitude, loss, exile, love, death, memory, and the passage of time also occupy a central place in her writing.

The poems are generally marked by a concise, meditative style and by a direct engagement with the darker aspects of existence and the instability of life. Images of silence, absence, homeland, shadow, time, and death recur throughout the collection, creating a poetic atmosphere that is deeply personal while also resonating with the historical upheavals of the twentieth century. Many of the poems reflect the experience of a woman who lived through migration, war, political collapse, and the loss of homeland.

What Remains is significant because it brings Arendt’s poetic and inward voice into clearer view, revealing how questions that shaped her theoretical work also appear in a more personal and emotional form in her poetry. Translated into Persian by Saeed Tavanayi Marvi, the collection will be of particular interest to readers of twentieth-century German poetry, Hannah Arendt, and the intersections of literature, philosophy, and historical experience.