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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Weldon Kees, Robert E. Knoll (Editor)Publish date:2003-06-01Pages:273
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803278080ISBN-10:080327808XUPC:9780803278080Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, MilitarySize:8.96 x 5.72 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCQQKTNAZG
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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803278080ISBN-10:080327808XUPC:9780803278080Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, MilitarySize:8.96 x 5.72 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCQQKTNAZG
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).
Publisher: Bison Books

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