Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: A Life in Letters - Hardcover

Kees, Weldon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803227094 ISBN 13: 9780803227095

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1986

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."

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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803227094
• ISBN 13: 9780803227095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253
• Editor: Knoll Robert E.