ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS

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. Among his translations are Goethe’s Faust, Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected Writings of Heinrich von Kleist, and poems and plays by Brecht.

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. In that role he has enjoyed a privileged overview of the translation and reception of Brecht’s works. Major publications include Brecht on Theatre and Brecht on Art and Politics.

Together, David Constantine and Tom Kuhn are embarking on a major new edition of Brecht’s poems.

Portrait of Bertolt Brecht (1931) by Paul Hamann, © Chris Drinkwater 2014.

Copyright © 2015 by David J. Constantine and Thomas Mark Kuhn

Foreword copyright © 2015 by Barbara Brecht-Schall

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First published as a Liveright paperback 2015

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Acknowledgments are due to the editors of the following publications,
in which some of these poems first appeared: Modern Poetry
in Translation, The New Yorker.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898–1956.

[Poems. Selections English]

Love Poems / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by David Constantine
and Tom Kuhn ; foreword by Barbara Brecht-Schall. — First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-87140-856-3 (hardcover)

I. Constantine, David, 1944– translator.
II. Kuhn, Tom, translator. III. Title.

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