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by: Weldon Kees
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780803278080
ISBN: 080327808X
Label: Bison Books
Manufacturer: Bison Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 273
Publication Date: June 01, 2003
Publisher: Bison Books
Sales Rank: 1470479
Studio: Bison Books
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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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