Weldon Kees - Wikipedia
网页Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – disappeared July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker.
Weldon Kees | The Poetry Foundation
网页Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and attended Doane College, the University of Missouri, and the University of Nebraska, where he earned his BA in 1935. His poetry collections include Collected Poems (1960, edited by Donald Justice), Poems 1947-1954, The Fall of Magicians (1947), and The Last Man (1943).
The Disappearing Poet - The New Yorker
网页2005年6月26日 — On Tuesday, July 19, 1955, a highway patrol reported that the car, belonging to a Weldon Kees, had been discovered with the keys in the ignition. Two of Kees’s friends, Michael Grieg and Adrian...
About Weldon Kees - Academy of American Poets
网页Weldon Kees - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born in 1914, Weldon Kees is the author of …
‘Not Without Violence’: The Disappearing World of Weldon Kees
网页A warm night in San Francisco, October 1954. Weldon Kees is enjoying an evening’s jazz. In nine months’ time, he will leave his home and disappear forever. But tonight, he is unwinding at the Aluminium Cherubim. To one side of him sits W. H. Auden.
Weldon Kees - Poems by the Famous Poet - All Poetry
网页Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, novelist, short story writer, jazz critic, and filmmaker. His work, though celebrated during his lifetime, faded from view in the decades following his presumed death , only to be rediscovered and championed by a new generation of readers and scholars.
The Cult of Weldon Kees - Dana Gioia
网页The current literary reputation of Weldon Kees is both paradoxical and exemplary. It presents a paradox in that his work is held in high esteem by poets, especially younger ones, while it remains virtually unknown to academic critics.
Weldon Kees - Wikiwand
网页Harry Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, Kees is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the Beat generation, and peer of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell.
Weldon Kees - Modern American Poetry
网页Kees was not only a poet—one often cynical about American middle class values—but also a painter, a pianist, and a jazz composer. In California, he also collaborated with psychiatrist Jurgen Ruesch on the book Non-Verbal Communication, which is illustrated with Kees's photographs.
Robinson | The Poetry Foundation
网页Weldon Kees: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952.