Portrait of Johannes Kühn

Johannes Kühn

Johannes Kühn (b. 1934) is the author of Leuchtspur (Trajectory, Hanser, 1995) and Wasser genügt nicht: Gasthausgedichte (Water Isn’t Enough: Guesthouse Poems, Hanser, 1997). Because of an illness, Kühn didn’t speak for years, then began writing poetry in his late fifties. He lives in Hasborn, Germany. (updated 2000)

AGNI has published the following work:

Noon Bells in the Field

Poetry by Johannes Kühn Translated from the German by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright
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