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4 unusual facts about Rolf Dieter Brinkmann


Cambridge Poetry Festival

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann: The Last One: Readings / Autorenlesungen, Cambridge Poetry Festival 1975 Audio-book CD, 59 min. (Intermedium Records, 2005)

Mark Terrill

For over ten years he was a regular contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, and in 2009 he was invited to guest-edit a special German Poetry issue of the Atlanta Review, which also featured his own translations of Peter Handke, Günter Grass, Nicolas Born, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann and many others.

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Like a Pilot: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Selected Poems, 1963-1970; translated by Mark Terrill (Sulphur River Literary Review Press, 2001) ISBN 0-9657687-7-5

The precision of description of this style never left him, but merged in his poetry with influences from William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Ted Berrigan.



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