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Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation : Letters, 1935-1955, Paperback / softback Book

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

Edited by Robert E. Knoll

Paperback / softback

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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."

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