Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rolf Dieter Brinkmann (April 16, 1940, Vechta, Oldenburg - April 23, 1975, London) was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner wei mehr (Nobody knows anymore), a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman. The precision of description of this style never left him, but in the 1960s Benn merged with William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara and Ted Berrigan. Brinkmann's poetry is filled with references to popular culture, from tango to Hollywood films. Brinkmann despised the fashionable leftist literature with its platitudes, his sensibility and the despair of civilisation permeating Rom, Blicke and the other posthumously published prose writings goes much deeper.