highlight of [Rolf Dieter] Brinkmann's pop-poetry mode. Here he captures the intersection of fantasy, memory and the unknown that sex symbols generate. Focusing this longing on Gardner's foot, which "is/a nightmare, when it refuses/to let itself be removed from/your memory," Brinkmann shows his signature use of humor and deep seriousness at once, which appears more clearly later in the poem, when he admits "there are worse things than toes,/this I know/but there is nothing/that can be compared to/the toe of Ava Gardner."from The Prague Post: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's revolutionary poetry
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