Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees

by James Reidel

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803239513
• ISBN13: 9780803239517
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.4"