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CRUSOE'S FOOTPRINT by Mary Jo Salter | 3QR: The Three Quarter ... by 3qreview (2013/05/23 11:36)
austere “Robinson” poems of Weldon Kees the suicide, or Emil by that crank Rousseau who thought he'd bring up a boy on Defoe alone. Swiss Family Robinson? There: we've defined the branching tree-house of writing.
3QR Author Note: MARY JO SALTER | 3QR: The Three Quarter ... by 3qreview (2013/05/23 10:59)
For instance, in this poem, I make “keys” into typewriter keys, the keys on a map, the keys to happiness, the “quais” in Auden's elegy to Yeats, as well as the poet Weldon Kees, the Florida Keys (where Bishop lived), and ...
In the Suicide's Library: Reading Notes | LABORA / EDITIONS by Ryan Charles Trusell (2013/04/22 00:00)
Weldon Kees, the poet whose ownership signature graces the library copy of Ideas of Order by Wallace Stevens (will it become Bowling's copy of Ideas of Order?) is another man who is both a part of and apart from the ...
Poetry Month: Crime Club (Kees) | Small Pond by Small Pond (2013/04/21 14:50)
... in a white gown, / Screaming that all the world is mad, that clues / Lead nowhere, or to walls so high that their tops cannot be seen; / Screaming all day of war, screaming that nothing can be solved. / —Weldon Kees, from.
Forty Years of Building a Literary Legacy: Reyes Cárdenas | Somos ... by Armando Rendón (2013/04/16 23:28)
Reyes turns the Weldon Kees character into the empty white bourgeois man who lacks a soul. In Robinson's world of non-feeling and immediate satisfaction, only the workers, the common folk who must forge a living in an ...
Poetry of Ryan VineSaturday, April 20th, 1:00 pm | Two Harbors ... by admin (2013/04/05 22:01)
Local award winning poet Ryan Vine will share several selections of his work, followed by an interactive discussion focused primarily on the use of metaphor. Mr. Vine is the author of Distant Engines, a Weldon Kees Award ...
Suggested Poems for April 16, 2013, Discussion of Donald Justice ... by yourownsmallcraft (2013/04/02 13:32)
Sestina On six Words by Weldon Kees Men at Forty* Variations for Two Pianos Villanelle at Sundown* In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn* Hell Women in Love Here in Katmandu American Sketches* ...
small marks: Tuesday Poem - Problems of a journalist (Weldon Kees) by Elizabeth (2013/03/19 05:41)
But the fire roared and died, the phoenix quacked like a goose, / And all roads to the country fray like shawls / Outside the dusk of suburbs. Pacing the halls / Where mile-high windows frame a dream with witnesses, / You taste ...
The Lit Pub • One Can Feel His Presence and Hear His Voice by tlp (2013/03/11 16:00)
In 1955, Weldon Kees — poet, filmmaker, musician, and artist — disappeared. His car was found on the Golden Gate Bridge. Kees' body has yet to be found, but one can still feel his presence and hear his voice in Robinson ...
University Diaries » A MOOC Morsel: Today's Poetry Lecture by Margaret Soltan (2013/03/10 12:29)
Lecture 18: Poetry and the Way it Undermines Us: Weldon Kees and Donald Justice. After a break of a few months, I'm back to conclude this lecture series on poetry. This is Lecture 18, titled Poetry and the Way It Undermines Us: Weldon Kees ...
Heartwood 3:2 – Weldon Kees and Robinson Alone | areadinglife.com by Heartwood (2013/02/28 09:00)
Weldon Kees was a mid-twentieth-century American poet, writer, painter, filmmaker and musician who disappeared one day in 1955, his car abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. People who know of Kees ...
A Passion for Poetry and Pathology | HealthHub | Brigham and ... by Brigham and Women's Hospital (2013/02/06 07:29)
The poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and John Keats ignited Dr. Lee's initial interest in poetry. Later, he found inspiration in the work of T.S. Eliot, Rainer Rilke, Philip Larkin, Weldon Kees, and Louise Bogan.
Kathleen Rooney on Nickelodeon Memories, Poetry, and Weldon ... by Claire Glass (2013/01/25 14:44)
Back in November, I reviewed Rose Metal Press founder, Katheleen Rooney's, Robinson Alone, a novel in poems commemorating the life of poet Weldon Kees. Rooney brings Kees back through Robinson, a character of his ...
My New Favorite Poet is: Weldon Kees | A Rhythm Runs Through It by A Rhythm Runs Through It (2013/01/18 18:15)
All my words that are fit to print (and other's too!) (by A Rhythm Runs Through It)
Robinson Alone and Kees Remembered: An Interview with Author ... by nickcourtright (2013/01/14 10:20)
On that longer list there is a question mark next to the name Weldon Kees—a mid-twentieth-century writer of acclaim, he mysteriously disappeared to, potentially, a new life in Mexico, or alternately, his self-ordained doom at ...
In Praise of Weldon Kees, Where Have You Gone Robinson? | The ... by Josh Mahler (2013/01/14 10:00)
weldon-kees I read an interview by James Reidel on the Poetry Foundation website titled “Conjuring Act,” which discussed poet Kathleen Rooney's new book of poems and her effort to continue and “summon” the spirit and ...
Conjuring Act by James Reidel - Poetry Foundation by unknown (2013/01/08 07:05)
James Reidel, author of Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), interviewed Rooney for the Poetry Foundation. They spoke about why Kees is an invitational writer, what ...
Coldfront » Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012 [40-31] by admin (2013/01/07 09:05)
Kathleen Rooney's Robinson Alone takes its title character from the poems of Weldon Kees. A novel in verse, Robinson Alone provides an extension of Kees's persona, delving into Robinson's search for self-fulfillment and his ...
WFOP News | Council for Wisconsin Writers News by jhayslett (2013/01/02 12:19)
Recently anthology appearances include Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else; Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees; Poetry from Paradise Valley: Poems from ...
Poetry Reading, Weldon Kees, Small Prayer | pewterbreath by pewterbreath (2012/12/13 20:42)
Weldon Kees's Small Prayer, not to a god but to time. However, isn't time the ruler of us all, the very container in which everything else exists? Then again, time is often described as a human invention, a measurement of the ...
Liz's Weekly Poetry Series: Lars Iyer And Weldon Kees | 4&20 ... by lizard19 (2012/12/09 08:15)
This week's poem is by Weldon Kees, a poet who disappeared in July of 1955, never to be heard from again. His poetry is almost always dark, always haunted. The poem below the fold, even when life affirming at the end, ...
Kathleen Rooney and Harry Weldon Kees - Our Town by Sarah Terez-Rosenblum (2012/12/06 14:26)
Poet Kathleen Rooney on the other hand, used her obsession with poet, musician and painter Harry Weldon Kees to fuel her own work, ultimately creating Robinson Alone, a Novel in Poems. She spoke with Our Town about ...
Kathleen Rooney - The Nervous Breakdown by Kathleen Rooney (2012/12/04 13:00)
Kathleen Rooney talks about how her book connects to the mysterious disappearance of poet Weldon Kees, and then offers a yummy cookie recipe.
A conversation with Kathleen Rooney - Necessary Fiction by Amber Lee (2012/11/20 10:25)
Each poem was written with the intent of being a satisfying and complete read in and of itself, but each poem is also intended to function like a chapter that advances the overall story Robinson, Weldon Kees' poetic alter ego.
Poems by others . . .: Weldon Kees by Halvard Johnson (2012/11/11 10:54)
Weldon Kees. Hommage to Arthur Waley Seattle weather: it has rained for weeks in this town, The dampness breeding moths and a gray summer. I sit in the smoky room reading your book again, My eyes raw, hearing the ...
Lived Domesticities: biography Weldon Kees - extra credit by Kelly Billares (2012/11/07 21:06)
I researched the biography of Weldon Kees based on the poem "For My Daughter." Weldon Kees began publishing in 1934 and sold multiples of stories during 1934-1945. The biography of the poet relates to the poet's sonnet ...
Review: Robinson Alone by Kathleen Rooney - Gapers Block by Claire Glass (2012/11/01 08:38)
Kathleen Rooney's Robinson Alone, a novel in poems, imagines the adult life and eventual disappearance of poet, musician, and artist Weldon Kees through her character, Robinson. From leaving his small hometown to the ...
Largehearted Boy: Book Notes - Kathleen Rooney "Robinson Alone" by david (2012/10/25 09:41)
Kathleen Rooney's Robinson Alone is a vividly realized novel-in-poems based on the life and work of poet Weldon Kees and the alter ego featured in many of his poems, Robinson. Booklist wrote of the book: "Rooney's ...
Robinson Alone: An Interview with Kathleen Rooney | HTMLGIANT by Sean Lovelace (2012/10/22 08:40)
Weldon Kees and Robinson are so durably linked, a bit inexplicably since Kees created a great deal of art, and “Robinson” appears in but four poems (to my knowledge). What is it about Robinson that emits such power?
Poetry Review: “Robinson Alone” by Kathleen Rooney | Newcity Lit by Naomi Huffman (2012/10/22 02:00)
This is art that stitches itself between the world of poetry and of the novel. Furthermore, the book is an homage to the late Weldon Kees, whose poem “Robinson” (originally published in the New Yorker in 1945) and whose life ...
Lived Domesticities: For My Daughter By Weldon Kees by Leon Ibragimov (2012/10/17 13:30)
How do you know the speaker in Weldon Kees' poem is a woman? Which line indicates that the speaker hates the daughter? Continue reading, as just because a line ends, this does not mean that is the end of the idea; follow ...
TRUE BURLESQUE: True Story of Weldon Kees, Poet and Painter ... by Victor Minx (2012/10/14 12:02)
Who was Weldon Kees? Influential critics have been asking that far longer than I have been wondering who is Icel Condon. Wendell created a burlesque review in 1955 which featured a stripper reading poetry…ICEL! Cool!
Our Literary Rogue Of The Week, Weldon Kees « The Literary Rogue by The Literary Rogue (2012/10/13 21:17)
There was a jazz band, with Kees on standup piano. They played a version of “I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll.” Kees was introduced as “Mr. Weldon Kees, poet, painter, artist, etcetera, composer, critic, ...
Research Notes: Kathleen Rooney - Necessary Fiction by Steve Himmer (2012/10/12 06:00)
Lucky for me, I fell in love with and based my latest book, the novel in poems Robinson Alone, on Weldon Kees, a minor literary figure with only three books of poetry, one story collection and one novel to his name. Equally ...
Review of Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees - The ... by Kevin Flatowicz-Farmer (2012/09/08 10:29)
The Backwaters Press collection of poems inspired by Weldon Kees continues to collect praise. On September 5, in Rattle, Maryann Corbett writes a thoughtful, and glowing critique of Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon ...
ASPECTS OF ROBINSON: HOMAGE TO WELDON KEES edited by ... by Timothy Green (2012/09/05 05:00)
Review by Maryann Corbett. ASPECTS OF ROBINSON: HOMAGE TO WELDON KEES edited by Christopher Buckley and Christopher Howell. The Backwaters Press 3502 N. 52nd Street Omaha, Nebraska 68104-3506 ...
TOM CLARK: Weldon Kees: The Lease Is Up by TC (2012/08/19 06:46)
Weldon Kees (b. 24 February 1915, Beatrice, Nebraska; d. 18 July 1955[?], San Francisco, California): When the Lease is Up, from The Last Man, 1943. Photos by John Vachon (b. St. Paul, Minnesota, 14 May 1914; d. ... a prosperous businessman who ran the F.D. Kees Manufacturing Company (producers of handles, hooks, cornhuskers and other hardware items) and was for a time president of the Nebraska Association of Manufacturers; the poet's mother, Sarah, ...
“Small Prayer” by Weldon Kees | FINDING MY FEET by clockwatcher23 (2012/07/19 15:34)
Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen, That time may find its sound again, and cleanse. Whatever it is that a wound remembers. After the healing ends. Weldon Kees, a poet and artist who mysteriously DISAPPEARED in 1955 ...
A poem by Weldon Kees | the poet's billow by thepoetsbillow (2012/06/16 08:32)
A poem by Weldon Kees. 16 Saturday Jun 2012. Posted by thepoetsbillow in Blog. ≈ 2 Comments. Tags. books, Lit. Journal, literature, online journal, poem, Poet, Poetry, reading, reading poetry, Writing ...
ACravan: Mad Men (Weldon Kees: Aspects Of Robinson) by ACravan (2012/05/09 00:37)
Someone once called Weldon Kees, the poet who wrote Aspects Of Robinson, the bitterest poet who ever lived. I don't know whether that's true, but I find it super-intriguing. He's a wonderful writer and was an absolutely ...
The Compass Rose: An Occurrence at the Bridge - Bierce & Kees by Curtis Faville (2012/04/20 09:34)
There is an eerie similarity to the careers of two notable Bay Area writers--Ambrose Bierce [1842-], and Weldon Kees [1914-]. Both were accomplished craftsmen in their respective genres--Bierce the journalist, satirist and fabulist--Kees the poet, musician/composer, and painter--and each died under mysterious circumstances--Bierce [1913] apparently executed while in Mexico by hostile partisans--Kees [1955] an apparent suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge. Because ...
ACravan: To Build A Quiet City In His Mind (Weldon Kees) by acravan (2012/03/09 01:42)
I think you're both ready for the Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, who is described in Donald Justice's introduction (as I recall) as the "bitterest poet who ever lived." Also fascinating (it's all really interesting are: Kees To The ...
Blog of Will: Small Prayer by Weldon Kees : Poetry Magazine by Will (2012/02/24 16:24)
My Photo · Will Cruttenden: I play fretless bass and touch guitar, teach English and write. I also enjoy playing chess, reading and writing poems, art, espresso and photography. More than anything I enjoy discovering new ...
Happy Birthday, Weldon Kees! | Humor in America by Caroline Zarlengo Sposto (2012/02/23 22:00)
Weldon Kees was born on this day in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1914. His artistic endeavors included painting and music, but he is best known for bringing a rich, new voice to American poetry––a voice full of wonderfully quirky, ...
ACravan: Crime Club (Weldon Kees) by ACravan (2012/02/18 02:59)
Included in The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Lincoln and London, University of Nebraska Press, 1975). Posted by ACravan at 1:59 AM. Labels: Beyond The Pale, Chalk Outline, Crime Club, Shirley Temple, Tom Clark, ...
TOM CLARK: Weldon Kees: 1926 by TC (2012/02/16 05:20)
1918 sheet music cover of Bob Carleton's Ja-Da: image by Jafeluv, 20 November 2009. Weldon Kees (b. 24 February 1915, Beatrice, Nebraska; d. 18 July 1955[?], San Francisco, California): 1926, from Poems 1947-1954, ...
Round Bend Press: Weldon Kees by Round Bend Editor (2012/02/15 17:16)
Weldon Kees. Weldon Kees (1914-1955) is an often overlooked American poet and musician who was born and raised in Beatrice, Nebraska. I found him in an anthology of poets called Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry ...
TOM CLARK: Weldon Kees: The Upstairs Room by TC (2012/02/15 07:00)
Weldon Kees: The Upstairs Room . Lincoln, Nebraska: photo by John Vachon, 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress). It must have been in March the rug wore through.
accountbook: Weldon Kees "1926" Poem animation by accountbook (2012/02/10 09:55)
Heres a virtual movie of the American poet Weldon Kees reading his best known poem "1926" In this poem the poet remembers his childhood street in 1926 before the after effects of WW2. Fifteen years later it is evident that ...
Small Prayer by Weldon Kees : Poetry Magazine by unknown (2012/02/01 05:30)
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day / May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes. / Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen, / That time may find its sound again, and cleanse.
Into the Void: The Bicoastal Legacy of Weldon Kees | California ... by Holly Hunt (2012/01/26 10:46)
Weldon Kees (1914-1955) [Image: Poetry Foundation] ... An elusive and haunting figure, best remembered for his poetry, Kees had taken up painting only six years prior to signing the “irascibles” letter. By 1949, he had ...
Reading lists from low-residency MFA program discussion. | The ... by Whit Coppedge (2012/01/08 07:55)
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon U. Press. 2007. Kees, Weldon. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees. Ed. Donald Justice. Nebraska: U. of Nebraska Press. 2003. Kenyon, Jane. Collected Poems. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press. 2005 ...
Colloquy by Weldon Kees | Ripe-tomato.org - Follow “Ripe-tomato.org” by jimgthornton (2011/12/23 01:06)
tags: cats, depression, New Yorker, Owl weather, poem, Weldon Kees. The poet takes his torments to his sleepy cat. Get on with life and ... And why does the yellow New Yorker Book of Poems (p134) omit the em dashes [—]?
Unqualified Reservations: Three poems of Weldon Kees by Mencius Moldbug (2011/11/14 18:17)
Three poems of Weldon Kees. June 1940 (1943): It is summer, and treachery blurs with the sounds of midnight, The lights blink off at the closing of a door, And I am alone in a warn-out time in wartime, Thinking of those who ...
Alunir: Noir Genius: Weldon Kees and Jorge Luis Borges by Jamie Asaye fitzgerald (2011/10/31 10:18)
Tomorrow, as night descends on Boyle Heights, I'll be reading a few poems by noir genius Weldon Kees (who should be more famous for his poetry rather than his presumed suicide). I'm a mere accessory to this crime.
"Poetry Fix - Episode 20 - Weldon Kees - 1926" by Mary Karr by Mary Karr (2011/10/26 10:40)
Mary Karr and Christopher Robinson discuss Weldon Kees's poem "1926."
Kees to the City | Vanity Fair by unknown (2011/07/06 00:00)
Brendan Bernhard, the literary ghosthunter of the East Village, pays homage to a poet whose name is little-known and yet who continues to exert a tugging fascination, Weldon Kees. A cultural oddity of the East Village is that it ...
"To Build A Quiet City In His Mind": Weldon Kees - First Known ... by Stephen Pentz (2011/04/26 00:10)
Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska in 1914. ... Although Kees considered himself to be primarily a poet, he was also an artist (an abstract expressionist), a jazz pianist, a photographer, a filmmaker, and a journalist.
Monday Morning Motivation: Weldon Kees - Daily Inspiration by Harley King (2011/04/19 02:00)
And I didn't give up my writing — one did not exclude the other." Weldon Kees. American Poet, Painter, Composer, Short Story Writer. 1914 - 1955. As a creative leader, do you limit you creative expression to one type of art?
999 Poems: 847. Small Prayer, by Weldon Kees by Akshay Ahuja (2011/04/14 08:07)
Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day. May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes. Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen, That time may find its sound again, and cleanse. What ever it is that a wound remembers ...
Ampersand: from 'Five Villanelles' by Weldon Kees (1947) by Noel Duffy (2011/04/14 07:21)
What is refreshing in this poem by Weldon Kees (written before Thomas' or Mahon's as it turns out) is that it shows that the repetition can be used to an entirely different effect: the grinding and hopeless realities of daily life.
Poet's Musings: "Fugue," by Weldon Kees by Muser (2011/03/31 17:40)
"Fugue," by Weldon Kees ... POEMS: The Coast Starlight. http://www.amazon.com/Coast-Starlight-Collected-Poems-1976-2006/dp/1598581023/sr=1-1/qid=1157741935/ref=sr_1_1/102-6934409-6440127?ie=UTF8&s=books ...
POESY: February 24 -- Weldon Kees by Cat Dubie (2011/02/24 01:18)
Weldon Kees c 1954, Photograph by William Heick. Weldon Kees February 24, 1914 - July 18, 1955. Nebraska-born Kees was a poet, short story writer, journalist, painter, art critic, musician... Kees graduated from the ...
Poetry Fix, Episode 20: Weldon Kees - The The Poetry Blog by Chris Robinson (2011/02/05 01:00)
Mary Karr and Christopher Robinson discuss Weldon Kees's poem 1926.
Daughters and Weldon Kees - Empowering Girls and Women by Marina (2010/10/12 03:30)
Each semester, I teach Weldon Kees' poem “For My Daughter” to my literature class. This year, however, perhaps because my daughter is three and I am becoming increasingly aware of the degenerate roles girls assume in ...
Accidentally Forget your Weldon Kees? - Hyperallergic by Ian Epstein (2010/09/13 08:30)
On July 19, 1955, the widely renowned poet/critic/writer/painter/filmmaker/prolific and jazzy wunderkind Weldon Kees, who got bored with poems and fiction and taught himself to paint so fast and so well that it was practically a ...
zaidenwerg: Robinson en casa (Weldon Kees) by zaidenwerg (2010/09/05 20:13)
La edición que manejo, la única que existe de su poesía reunida, es la siguiente: The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2003 (3ra ed.). 11:29 a.m.. Publicar un comentario · << Home ...
An Interview with Kathleen Rooney » Linebreak by Johnathon Williams (2010/08/15 14:36)
Kathleen Rooney's poem “Robinson Sends a Letter to Someone” appeared on Linebreak on May 4. The poem borrows its voice and subject from the work of Weldon Kees, a poet, composer, and painter who disappeared at ...
"Mrs. Reynold's Cat" by John Keats | Immortal MuseImmortal Muse by immortalmuse (2010/08/02 04:35)
... Edward Hirsh's Zooey, Marianne Moore's Peter, Weldon Kees's (appropriately named) Lonesome — poems from them all; plus Shelley, Dickinson, Swinburne, Swift, Wordsworth, Rosetti, Hughes, Updike and many others, ...
Live Nude Poems: Weldon Kees by Rusty (2010/05/14 07:19)
Along with my Jack Gilbert kick, I've been reading the poems of Weldon Kees as well as the secondary material (very little of which seems to be available in book form), which is too bad. There's a pretty good book called ...
"Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees" by ... by Raymond Nelson (2010/03/31 13:20)
When poet Weldon Kees walked away into the fogs of the Golden Gate Bridge he made his life and ironic style into the stuff of myth. In the years since his disappearance he has commonly been remembered less for his remarkable verses than ...
TOM CLARK: Weldon Kees: Back by TC (2010/03/15 06:51)
Much cry and little wool: I have come back. As empty-handed as I went. Back: Weldon Kees, from Poems: 1947-1954. Beach stones and sand on the west coast of South Island, New Zealand: photo by Mezza, 2009. at 06:51 ...
zaidenwerg: Los embajadores (Weldon Kees) by zaidenwerg (2010/03/14 20:04)
Los embajadores (Weldon Kees). Ni ojos. Ni luz. La mano helada e imperfecta se aferra al lugar donde había un pasamanos, o encuentra, eventualmente, la tersura de un muro. Suda como una frente en la que un ...
jcscaffman's blog: Enrich your life with poetry (Weldon Kees' "The ... by jcscaffman (2010/02/23 11:49)
The Beach / by Weldon Kees / Squat, unshaven, full of gas, / Joseph Samuels, former clerk / in four large cities, out of work, / waits in the darkened underpass. / In sanctuary, out of reach, / he stares at the fading light outside: ...
My Blog: "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees by Carrie Utke (2009/11/12 19:39)
"For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees. "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees Looking in to my daughter's eyes I read. Beneath the innocence of morning flesh. Concealed, hintings of death she does not heed. Coldest of winds have blown this hair, and mesh. Of seaweed snarled these miniatures of hands; ... The last line of this poem really shows the bitterness and resentment the narrator feels toward having a daughter. This poem tells of how Kees imagines it being to ...
Poetry makes nothing happen… or does it? - Poetry Foundation by Don Share (2009/11/04 12:21)
Weldon Kees is, um, the best poet ever to come out of Nebraska. I really like John Berryman. I really don't like Robert Bly. Thanks for the recommendations. I am considering reading Byron next, but I knew a guy named Byron ...
The Wooden Spoon: Robinson, by Weldon Kees by Daniel E. Pritchard (2009/08/22 13:50)
Robinson, by Weldon Kees. Posted by Daniel Pritchard. "Robinson" by Weldon Kees The mirror from Mexico, stuck to the wall, Reflects nothing at all. The glass is black. Robinson alone provides the image Robinsonian. Which is all of the room — walls, curtains, Shelves, bed, the tinted photograph of Robinson's first ... His Collected Poems is really good. Flawed certainly, but nearly always interesting. There are four (I think) 'Robinson' poems and they're all very good.
University Diaries » Why is Weldon Kees a Great Poet? by Margaret Soltan (2009/07/27 15:49)
The many contemporary poets who revere Weldon Kees try to get at why they revere him. Why his poetry is beautiful and thrilling and inspirational. And nihilistic. Kees died, age 45, in 1955. He jumped off the Golden Gate ...
999 Poems: 946. From "Eight Variations," by Weldon Kees by Akshay Ahuja (2009/07/14 18:56)
From "Eight Variations," by Weldon Kees. And when your beauty, washed away. In impure streams by my desire, Is only topic for ill-mannered minds, Gifted and glassy with exact recall, Gossip and rancid footnotes, or remote ...
One Poet's Notes: Jeff Newberry: "Pantoum on a Line by Weldon ... by Edward Byrne (2009/07/06 22:39)
The VPR Poem of the Week is Jeff Newberry's “Pantoum on a Line by Weldon Kees,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2006 issue (Volume VII, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review. Jeff Newberry is the author of A ...
Robinson – Weldon Kees | This is just to say by sauti (2009/01/09 11:23)
Robinson – Weldon Kees. This category is for those pieces of writing (excerpts, novels, poems, plays, flash fiction, etc., etc.) that I'll never write but would gladly string myself up on a tree for nine full nights to have written.
Inward Bound Poetry: 746. On A Painting By Rousseau - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2008/11/24 08:58)
The clouds seem neater than the trees. / The sky, like faded overalls, / Breaks the distances of sight; / And shadow that defines the curb / shelters the silhouette of dog / Who, waiting patiently beneath / The amazing carriage ...
“Mr. Weldon Kees, poet, painter, artist, etcetera, composer, critic ... by Johnathon (2008/09/22 15:28)
Mr. Weldon Kees, poet, painter, artist, etcetera, composer, critic, etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum.”
Inward Bound Poetry: 700. Five Villanelles - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2008/07/21 08:01)
Five Villanelles - Weldon Kees. I. The crack is moving down the wall. Defective plaster isn't all the cause. We must remain until the roof falls in. It's mildly cheering to recall. That every building has its little flaws. The crack is ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 617. Sestina: Travel Notes - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2008/03/12 08:40)
Directed by the eyes of others, / Blind to the long, deceptive voyage, / We walked across the bridge in silence / And said "Goodnight," and paused, and walked away. / Ritual of apology and burden: / The evening ended; not a ...
Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Whatever Happened to Weldon Kees? by Mer (2008/01/28 18:20)
A poet, a novelist, a painter, a jazz composer, a photographer, an art critic, a radio personality and a filmmaker, Weldon Kees wore many hats. Always dapper, always daring without compromising his accessibility, he was a ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 562. Variations On A Theme By Joyce ... by Bookgleaner (2007/12/25 10:14)
The war is in words and the wood in the world / That turns beneath our rootless feet; / The vines that reach, alive and snarled, / Across the path where the sand is swirled, / Twist in the night. The light lies flat. / The war is in ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 538. San Francisco - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2007/11/26 08:24)
Beside the bay, observers penetrate / Distance upon distance, cloud on cloud, / Crayons of smoke that sketch blue sky / With gray appeals. We pause, stretched side by side, / Safe for the moment from the nudging crowd, ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 520. Praise To The Mind - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2007/11/02 07:25)
Praise to the mind / That slowly grows / In solid breadth, that knows / Its varied errors, shows / And will admit / Its witlessness. / Praise to the single mind / That sees no street / Run through this world, complete, / That does not ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 513. Obituary - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2007/10/24 07:51)
Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot / No longer screams warnings to Avenue A. / He died last week on a rainy day. / He is sadly missed. His spirit was rare. / The cage is empty. The unhooked chain, / His pitiful drippings, the ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 510. Henry James At Newport - Weldon Kees by Bookgleaner (2007/10/19 07:12)
For Ann) / And shores and strands and naked piers, / Sunset on waves, orange laddering the blue, / White sails on headlands, cool / Wide curving bay, dim landward distances / Dissolving in the property of local air. / Viterbo ...
1960: Weldon Crusoe by Al Filreis (2007/10/06 06:57)
I've mentioned that The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees was published in 1960. When the narrator of Kees' poems is in the third person, he is sometimes given a name - Robinson, whom Kenneth Rexroth described as ...
Kicking the Gourd: household god: weldon kees by Ryan (2007/02/10 23:18)
Weldon Kees. (1914-1955?) From Beatrice, Nebraska. Poet, Artist, Filmmaker, Composer, Editor, Polymath. Lived and fought with all the greats of his generation. On Tuesday, July 19th, 1955 San Franciso police found Kees' ...
University of Nebraska Press: August with Weldon Kees by Flenniken (2006/10/13 00:00)
rom The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, Bison Books: THE BEACH IN AUGUST The day the fat woman In the bright blue bathing suit Walked into the water and died, I thought about the human Condition. Pieces of old fruit.
Gary Lucas: Odds and Ends (the Kees to the Kingdom) blog by Gary Lucas (2005/09/05 15:03)
I first came across a fragment of this poem in a TLS review of a recent biography of Weldon Kees last summer, but the reviewer failed to either see or make the obvious connection ...so...I ran this by Alice Quinn, my neighbor ...
grapez: Neither Did Weldon Kees by Greg (2005/08/18 19:09)
Neither Did Weldon Kees. It's not like I've come to read this poetry out of the clear blue sky. My first devotions besides Frost included Whitman and Ginsberg and Snyder. Especially in the seventies. So The New York School I ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Covering Two Years -- Weldon Kees by Sitaram (2005/07/27 05:22)
A month ago, I'd never heard of Weldon Kees. Then Anthony Lane wrote an article about him in the New Yorker [1] and I went out and got Kees' collected poems from the library and before I knew it another poet had been ...
Reading more Weldon Kees. A terrific poet. Here'... - HG Poetics by Henry Gould (2005/07/01 06:00)
Reading more Weldon Kees. A terrific poet. Here's an interesting article by Dana Gioia on Kees's influence & reception. Gioia raises a number of questions about the neglect & "non-canonizing" of this poet, who has been ...
The Beach in August by Weldon Kees : The Poetry Foundation by unknown (2004/10/20 17:00)
The day the fat woman / In the bright blue bathing suit / Walked into the water and died, / I thought about the human.
Robinson at Home by Weldon Kees : The Poetry Foundation by unknown (2001/01/31 17:00)
Curtains drawn back, the door ajar. / All winter long, it seemed, a darkening / Began. But now the moonlight and the odors of the street / Conspire and combine toward one community.

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Five books: Plenty of talent close to home - Chicago Tribune (2013/05/12 05:30)
Chicago TribuneFive books: Plenty of talent close to homeChicago TribuneKathleen Rooney's "Robinson Alone" channels the alter-ego of Weldon Kees, a poet who disappeared in San Francisco in 1955. Rooney, who (like Kees) is a Nebraska native, tells the older poet's story in a novel-in-poems. Rooney is the founder of Rose ...

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