reading Rolf Dieter Brinkmann from _Standphotos_

Godzilla und der Vogel /Godzilla and the Bird

Alka-Seltzer/Alka-Seltzer

Godzillas Ende/Godzilla's End

read by James Sanders

Standphotos

Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Rowohlt Verlag, 1980

370 pp.

English translations are from  

Like a Pilot

Translated by Mark Terrill

SRLR Press, 2001

93 pp.

All of the poems from his book, Godzilla, overlay what I assume are "bathing beauty" photographs from (German?) magazines or catalogs from the 60s. Here is the presentation of "Godzilla und der Vogel":












Please remember to look in the other direction while crossing the road in London.