| After Brecht: A Celebration Contributor(s): Leeder, Karen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1857548833 ISBN-13: 9781857548839 Publisher: Carcanet Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - History | Europe - Germany |
| Dewey: 831.910 |
| LCCN: 2006497589 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.34" W x 8.48" (0.35 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: German poets who have responded to Bertolt Brecht'sremarkable legacyas a dramatist, poet, and polemicistare collectedin this anthology, published to mark the 50th anniversary of his death in 1956. These poems demonstrate how Brecht's concerns and unique diction have become the very stuff of modern poetry, while critical works tend to focus on Brecht's role in shaping modern theater. This refreshing anthology illuminates Brecht's oeuvre, creating a poetic dialogue between past, present, and future that features such distinguished poets as Wolf Biermann, Heinrich Boll, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Peter Huchelas well astranslators David Constantine, Ian Fairley, Michael Hamburger, and Michael Hofmann." |