Gottfried Benn
German expressionist poet whose early morgue poems were shocking in their clinical detachment, and whose late work Static Poems established a cool, nihilistic modernism. He is one of the major German poets of the century.
German expressionist poet whose early morgue poems were shocking in their clinical detachment, and whose late work Static Poems established a cool, nihilistic modernism. He is one of the major German poets of the century.