Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955

Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914 55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of letters that shed light on Kees's complex personality. Robert E. Knoll traces the odyssey of a Nebraska boy who made his way in a fiercely competitive national scene, befriending the movers and shakers of the art worlds on both coasts. Kees's letters satirical,

Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of letters that shed light on Kees's complex personality. Robert E. Knoll traces the odyssey of a Nebraska boy who made his way in a fiercely competitive national scene, befriending the movers and shakers of the art worlds on both coasts. Kees's letters--satirical, witty, poetic, gossipy, intensely individual--provide the feel of lives being lived, of a career going forth, and finally, of the darkness that engulfed him when, in Knoll's phrase, he was ten minutes from triumph.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 06/01/2003
ISBN: 9780803278080
Pages: 273
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.72w x 0.78d