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Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees
By (author) James Reidel
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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 in his 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' troubled yet remarkably accomplished life. Reidel traces Kees' career from birth and boyhood in Beatrice, Nebraska, in 1914 to his stint as an award-winning short-story writer and novelist, his rise as a poet and critic in New York, his branching off into Abstract Expressionism, jazz music, and theatre, and his experimental and scientific filmmaking and photography.Going beyond the cult status that has grown up around Kees over the years, this work fairly and judiciously places him as a cultural adventurer at a particularly rich and significant moment in post-war twentieth -century America. 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 He is the editor of Fall Quarter , an unpublished novel by Kees and the editor of a website on Kees. Also available Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees Edited by Dana Gioia 2002 0-8032-7806-3, and Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters 1935-1955 Edited by Robert E. Knoll 1986 0-8032-7808-X.
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Publisher | University of Nebraska Press
Published date | 1 Sep 2003
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 448
Dimensions | 239 x 153 x 40mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 740g
ISBN | 978-0-8032-3951-7
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / literary
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