Love Poems

Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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

Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet...