Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation

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Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation is written by Weldon Kees and published by U of Nebraska Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 080327808X (ISBN 10) and 9780803278080 (ISBN 13).

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."