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Weldon Kees
3 Entertainments brings together three works for film and television by the American poet Weldon Kees, whose work was introduced to the United Kingdom by Michael Hofmann and Simon Armitage…
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Born in 1914 in Beatrice, Nebraska, and presumed dead in 1955 (when he apparently leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge), Weldon Kees has become one of the better-known ‘unknown’ American…
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During Weldon Kees’s life, his poems appeared in all the most pretigious magazines of the day-Poetry (Chicago), the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, and the Nation. Even the least…
John T. Irwin
The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
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A remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by Weldon Kees - each accompanied by a statement by the poet regarding Kees’s influence, magic, and power over the…
The stories are keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly fatalistic.
James Reidel
Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists - the so-called middle generation, which…
Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. This is a collection of letters that shed light on the kee’s complex personality. This work traces the…
Jurgen Ruesch,Weldon Kees
