The German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt is internationally renowned for her work on totalitarianism, the human condition, and the banality of evil. While Arendt often acknowledged that the language of poetry--especially that of Dickinson, Goethe, and Lowell--informed her writing on these subjects, relatively few people know that she also wrote poems. In fact, between 1923 and 1961, Arendt wrote seventy-four poems, many of them signposts...