A commenter pointed out that I hadn't recommended anything for poetry lovers. I know next to nothing about poetry, but here is a tiny list of books of poetry translated from German to English and published in 2014:
Rainer Brambach: Collected Poems (trans. Esther Kinsky)
Volker Braun: Rubble Flora (trans. David Constantine and Karen Leeder)
Bertolt Brecht: Love Poems (trans. David Constantine and Tom Kuhn)
Ernst Meister: Wallless Space (trans. Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick)
Farhad Showghi: End of the City Map (trans. Rosemarie Waldrop)
During the summer I saw an amazing performance of some of the Brecht poems, and some of Margarete Steffin's poems to him. You can watch the video at Modern Poetry in Translation. I cried. In fact I was still rather sniffly for the following hour or so. They're good translations.
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