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# Selected Poems

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great content, some printing errors.
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2021*

Not even the words of the brilliant Brecht could overcome printing errors. Several of the German poems suffer from a misaligned margin, poetically severing words or truncating lines. Your experience may be different?

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    Could the playwright who wrote the lyrics to "Mack the Knife" in 1929 be today's most relevant poet?
  

*by H***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017*

If you know anything about Bertolt Brecht, "poet"  has to sound like a wild stretch.  We know him as a playwright. And as a playwright, he disliked emotion; his goal was to make audiences think. In his poems, though, he could balance rationality and emotion. In “Parting,” he could even acknowledge — and work around — political differences and the irony that his prominence has made him economically comfortable:We embrace.Rich cloth under my fingersWhile yours touch poor fabric.A quick embraceYou were invited for dinnerWhile the minions of law are after me.We talk about the weather and ourLasting friendship. Anything elseWould be too bitter.Looking back, Brecht seems less like a radical, more like … well, some of us. You could almost say that the writer who died in 1956 is a citizen of the 21st century. How? First, he had no use for the writer as solitary hero. Or of solitary heroes of any kind, which he viewed — as some of us do — as media creations. As he wrote:The young Alexander conquered India.Was he alone?Caesar beat the Gauls.Did he not have even a cook with him?Philip of Spain wept when his armadaWent down. Was he the only one to weep?Frederick the Second won the Seven Year’s War. WhoElse won it?Every page a victory.Who cooked the feast for the victors?Every ten years a great man?Who paid the bill?Good question: Who pays the bill?We have come to know what Brecht knew: the little people. They are Brecht’s great concern, and now, thanks more to the Internet than any other media, we can’t help but be aware of them. The poor. The hungry. The old and shoved aside. Kids. And you can say, yeah, but he had a radical point-of-view about the disenfranchised and overlooked. Well, how radical, really, is this: “First feed the face. Then talk right and wrong.”The theme Brecht is largely working out in his poems — see if this doesn’t resonate a little for you — is just as simple: How do you live an ethical life in a corrupt society?For me, it’s his willingness to be as hard on himself as he is on those who keep The People down that makes Brecht much more than a propagandist. How often, for example, have you felt like this:Traveling in a comfortable carDown a rainy road in the countryWe saw a ragged fellow at nightfallSignal to us for a ride, with a low bow.We had a roof and we had room and we drove onAnd we heard me say, in a grumpy voice: No,we can’t take anyone with us.We had gone on a long way, perhaps a day’s marchWhen suddenly I was shocked by this voice of mineThis behavior of mine and thisWhole world.If the role of the poet is to articulate thoughts and emotions we share but cannot say, Bertolt Brecht is an important poet. Shockingly accessible. Surprisingly touching. And, more often than you might have thought, a chronicler of anxieties very much like ours.Consider this: In 1939, Brecht wrote “To Those Who Follow in Our Wake.” Some excerpts…I would happily be wise.The old books teach us what wisdom is:To retreat from the strife of the worldTo live out the brief time that is your lotWithout fearTo make your way without violenceTo repay evil with good —The wise do not seek to satisfy their desires,But to forget them.But I cannot heed this:Truly I live in dark times!….There was little I could do. But without meThe rulers sat more securely, or so I hoped.And so passedThe time given to me on earth.But you, when at last the time comesThat man can aid his fellow man,Should think upon usWith leniency.

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    a translation fit for a tin ear
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013*

works in translation are the bread of my life. h.r. hays work on these poems is of the most turgid kind. brecht's poetry is in german sublime. here the images and the sensibility are cloaked in impenetrably childish english idiom. occasionally there is a turn of phrase or an enlightened insight but mostly the work is childish and wooden.

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