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Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees
James Reidel
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Description for Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees
Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists—the so-called middle generation, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. His dramatic disappearance (a probable suicide) at the age of forty-one, his movie-star good looks, his role in various movements of the day, and his shifting relationships with key figures in the arts have made him one of the more intriguing—and elusive—artists of the time. In this long-awaited biography, James Reidel presents the first full account of Kees’s troubled yet remarkably accomplished life. Reidel traces ... Read more
Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists—the so-called middle generation, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. His dramatic disappearance (a probable suicide) at the age of forty-one, his movie-star good looks, his role in various movements of the day, and his shifting relationships with key figures in the arts have made him one of the more intriguing—and elusive—artists of the time. In this long-awaited biography, James Reidel presents the first full account of Kees’s troubled yet remarkably accomplished life. Reidel traces ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803259775
SKU
V9780803259775
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About James Reidel
James Reidel is a poet and an independent scholar. He is the editor of Fall Quarter, an unpublished novel by Kees and the editor of a website on Kees.
Reviews for Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees
"Reidel . . . provides an intimate view of an indecipherable poet, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker whom some critics (e.g. Dana Gioia) have long considered woefully underappreciated. This book may help change that. . . . Reidel's invitation into Kees's life leaves the reader reaching for his poetry, hungry for clues."—Choice "The biography of an American writer who is ... Read more