Love Poems by Bertolt Brecht (English) Hardcover Book

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An historic publication in which the legendary dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros.

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Even in Germany, the scope and force of Bertolt Brecht's poetry did not become apparent until long after his death and today, many of his more than 2,000 poems have never appeared in English. Love Poems, the first volume in a monumental undertaking by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn to translate his poetic legacy into English, positions Brecht not only as one of the most famous playwrights of the twentieth century but also as a fiercely creative twentieth-century poet, one of the best in German literature. With a foreword by his daughter; Love Poems features 78 astonishing and deeply personal love poems that reveal Brecht as lover and love poet whose struggle to keep faith, hope and love alive during desperate times represents the essence of human relationships.

Author Biography

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theater director. In those capacities, and also as a polemical essayist, he contributed powerfully to the chief literary and political debates of his day, and lastingly influenced theatrical theory and practice. He left more than 2,000 poems, assuring him a place among the very best lyric poets of Germany. David Constantine is a freelance writer and translator. His most recent volume of poetry is Elder (2014); his fourth collection of short stories, Tea at the Midland, won the Frank O' Connor International Short Story Award in 2013. Tom Kuhn teaches at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Hugh's College. He works on twentieth-century drama and German exile literature and has been, since 1996, editor of the main English-language Brecht edition.

Review

"Not a title that would immediately spring to mind in relation to Brecht but, as these translations by David Constantine and Tom Kuhn show, Germany's most innovative dramatist was also a gifted lyrical poet, full of passion and insight…" -- Belfast Telegraph

Review Quote

"The selection in Love Poems is a memorable and necessary reminder of the feeling artist in Brecht, the craftsman of humanistic, dynamic, erotic emotion... Their individualist and anarchic vibrancy do much to alter the diffuse perception of Brecht as an apparatchik with creaky polemical aims. What makes Brecht irresistible in Love Poems is how he ponders and prances as if some disaffected offspring of Petrarch and Catullus reared by the Earl of Rochester... [H]is best love poems match the provocations of his drama, prodding us from somatic complacency and the stultifying mundanity of our domestic lives."

Details ISBN0871408562 Author Barbara Brecht-Schall Short Title LOVE POEMS Pages 144 Language English Translator Tom Kuhn ISBN-10 0871408562 ISBN-13 9780871408563 Media Book Format Hardcover Residence GW Birth 1898 Death 1956 Year 2014 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United States DEWEY 831.912 Edition 1st Publication Date 2014-11-21 UK Release Date 2014-11-21 NZ Release Date 2014-11-21 US Release Date 2014-11-21 Publisher WW Norton & Co Imprint Liveright Publishing Corporation Alternative 9781631491115 Audience General AU Release Date 2014-12-11 We've got this

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