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Author : Weldon Kees
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780803278097
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55). --University of Nebraska Press.
Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 142142262X
A study in how a poet’s corpus is remembered after he vanishes. Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people of whom you’ve likely never heard. Most intriguingly, he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande. Kees’s vanishing has led critics to compare him to another American modernist poet who met a similar end two decades prior—Hart Crane. In comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin, however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet. Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the lasting interpretation of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s disappearance as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poems—as the author intended. 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.
Author : John T. Irwin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2017-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1421422611
People who vanish -- An almost invisible note -- The excellence of Weldon Kees -- "The dynamics of inferential mention": Hart Crane's influence on Kees -- Kees, a learned poet -- "Relating to robinson": mystery and literary interpretation
Author : Christoper Howell
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Kees was, I believe, one of the four or five most talented members of his generation. And this is the great post-modern generation of American poets which includes Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Theodore Roethke. That these other writers are so widely known and discussed while Kees is so forgotten seems strange indeed. -Dana Gioia, "The Achievement of Weldon Kees"
Author : Donald Justice
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Presents a collection of the selected poems of twentieth-century American poet Donald Justice depicting memories of childhood and youth, eulogies for the dead, and reflections of life's disappointments.
Author : Weldon Kees
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803278066
By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914?55) was a poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in New York City. Despite a contract for aøforthcoming novel, however, he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco, and worked as an artist and filmmaker. On July 18, 1955, his car was found on the Golden Gate Bridge, and he has not been seen since. These stories by Kees, predominantly set in Depression-era mid-America, feature bleak, realistic settings and characters resigned to their meager lives. The owner of an auto parts store occasionally "sells" his sister Betty Lou to interested patrons; a cryptic message in library books indicates the yearnings of a silenced patron; a young woman taking tickets at the Roseland Gardens futilely dreams of escape from the future she sees for herself; and an old man carefully saves his money to fulfill the requirements of a chain letter only to be disappointed by a spiteful daughter-in-law. Many of these stories are set in the Nebraska of Kees's youth, and they are written from a Midwestern sensibility: keenly observant, darkly humorous, and absurdly fantastic. In this new edition, Dana Gioia has added three stories to the fourteen gathered in the first edition, The Ceremony and Other Stories. The New York Times named that first edition, published in 1984, a notable book of the year.
Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Weldon Kees
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Fall Quarter is an academic black comedy about a young professor who battles the dreariness and banality of a staid Nebraskan college."--Goodreads
Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780983700142
Born in Nebraska in 1914, he followed his polymorphous muse from coast to coast as a musician, librarian, writer, screenwriter, critic, and painter. He is remembered most for his poetry, and for his disappearance. Did he leap to his death from the Golden Gate Bridge in July 1955 or seek a new life in Mexico? In an extraordinary act of identification, poet and essayist Rooney (For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010)) improvises on Kees's most haunting poems, a quartet featuring an alter ego named Robinson. Her loosely biographical, knowledgeably imaginative, and gorgeously atmospheric story in verse portrays Robinson as a dapper,talented, and bedeviled man who conceals his sorrows behind insouciance. Rooney weaves lines from Kees's writings into her bluesy, funny, and scorching lyrics as she follows Robinson from elation to desolation as his wife succumbs to alcoholism and his dreams fade.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 019516251X
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.