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

ISBN-13: 9780803278080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 273 str.

Weldon Kees; Robert E. Knoll

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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.""