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

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."

• | Author: Weldon Kees
• | Publisher: Bison Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 273 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 080327808X
• | ISBN-13: 9780803278080