Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation
A Life in Letters
Weldon Kees(Author)
Robert E. Knoll(Editor)
University of Nebraska Press
Published on 1. November 1986
Book
Hardback
253 pages
978-0-8032-2709-5 (ISBN)
Description
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."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illus
Dimensions
Height: 5817 mm
Width: 3887 mm
Weight
596 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8032-2709-5 (9780803227095)
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Persons
Robert E. Knoll is D. B. and Paula Varner Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Conversations with Wright Morris: Critical Views and Responses (Nebraska 1977).