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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780803278080
- ISBN-10: 080327808X
- Publisher: Bison Books
- Publish Date: June 2003
- Dimensions: 8.96 x 5.72 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 273
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