The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht and translated by Tom Kuhn

This is poetry from Germany.

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht translated by Tom Kuhn is published by Liveright. This is a Collected originally written in German. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780871407672E12.

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, by Bertolt Brecht and translated by Tom Kuhn from German, brings German poetry into English through Brecht’s gathered lyric range, theater-minded intelligence, and the political song hiding inside even the most intimate poem. Because it is a collected volume, it has the additional work of showing development, recurrence, and the pressure of a lifetime rather than a single occasion. I would read it for theater, song, politics, and the hard pleasure of a voice that refuses innocence, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as one of the major German-language poetic bodies of the twentieth century.

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