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WELDON KEES AND THE MIDCENTURY GENERATION
LETTERS, 1935-1955 |
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Weldon Kees, Robert E. Knoll (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
080327808X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803278080 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2003 |
| Pages: |
273 |
| Description: |
Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. This is a collection of letters that shed light on the kee's complex personality. This work 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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." |
| Illustrations: |
Illus |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Bison Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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