The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees,9780803278097

The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780803278097
ISBN10: 0803278098
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher(s): Bison Books
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Summary

The Collected Poems of Weldon Keesshowcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (191455).

Author Biography

Donald Justice is a preeminent American poet whose books include Oblivion: On Writers and Writing and New and Selected Poems. Distinguished poet David Wojahn is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. His collections of poetry include Spirit Cabinet and Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.

Table of Contents

THE LAST MAN 1(44)
Subtitle
3(1)
Part I Statement with Rhymes
4(13)
Two Cities
5(1)
The Speakers
6(1)
Corsage
7(1)
The Inquiry
8(1)
The Situation Clarified
9(1)
Variations on a Theme by Joyce
10(1)
Praise to the Mind
11(1)
What the Spider Heard
12(1)
White Collar Ballad
13(1)
For My Daughter
14(1)
The Scene of the Crime
15(1)
For H.V. (1901-1927)
16(1)
Part II June 1940
17(14)
After the Trial
18(2)
The Party
20(1)
A Cornucopia for Daily Use
21(2)
Resort
23(1)
The Caterpillar and the Men from Cambridge
24(1)
On a Painting by Rousseau
25(1)
Aunt Elizabeth
26(1)
Early Winter
27(1)
To the North
28(1)
Scream as You Leave
29(1)
When the Lease Is Up
30(1)
Part III Henry James at Newport
31(14)
Stale Weather
33(1)
Midnight
34(1)
Obituary
35(1)
Fugue
36(1)
Insectae Borinquenses
37(1)
The Forests
38(1)
The View of the Castle
39(1)
To a Contemporary
40(1)
Homage to Arthur Waley
41(1)
The City as Hero
42(1)
Lines for an Album
43(1)
The Smiles of the Bathers
44(1)
THE FALL OF THE MAGICIANS 45(42)
Part One
Eight Variations
47(5)
The Conversation in the Drawing Room
52(2)
The Contours of Fixation
54(1)
Moving Target
55(1)
The Patient is Rallying
56(1)
Report of the Meeting
57(2)
Part Two
Robinson
59(1)
The Ambassadors
60(2)
Dynamite for Operas
62(1)
Sestina: Travel Notes
63(2)
Five Villanelles
65(4)
A Brief Introduction to the History of Culture
69(1)
Poem Instead of a Letter
70(1)
That Winter
71(1)
Abstracts of Dissertations
72(1)
Girl at Midnight
73(2)
Crime Club
75(1)
Xantha Street
76(1)
Part Three
A Good Chord on a Bad Piano
77(1)
River Song
78(1)
The Heat in the Room
79(1)
The Bell from Europe
80(1)
The Doctor Will Return
81(1)
Year's End
82(1)
Death Under Glass
83(1)
Routes to Headquarters
84(3)
Part Four [Variations on a Theme by Joyce
Praise to the Mind
White Collar Ballad
For My Daughter
For H.V. (1901-1927)
After the Trial
A Cornucopia for Daily Use
Aunt Elizabeth
Early Winter
To the North
Obituary
The View of the Castle
The Smiles of the Bathers]
POEMS 1947-1954 87(74)
Part One
The Hourglass
89(7)
The Lives
96(1)
The Testimony of James Apthorp
97(3)
Round
100(1)
Turtle
101(1)
A Pastiche for Eve
102(1)
Return of the Ghost
103(1)
1926
104(1)
The Upstairs Room
105(1)
Guide to the Symphony
106(2)
Land's End
108(1)
Saratoga Ending
109(2)
Dog
111(1)
Testimonies
112(2)
Travels in North America
114(5)
Part Two
La Vita Nuova
119(1)
Back
120(1)
Dead March
121(1)
The Locusts, the Plaza, the Room
122(1)
Weather for Pilgrims
123(2)
Interregnum
125(1)
Problems of a Journalist
126(1)
A Late History
127(2)
Aspects of Robinson
129(1)
The Clinic
130(2)
Speeches and Lyric for a Play
132(3)
The Beach in August
135(1)
Robinson at Home
136(1)
A Distance from the Sea
137(3)
A Salvo for Hans Hofmann
140(1)
Part Three
The Darkness
141(1)
The Coming of the Plague
142(1)
The Furies
143(2)
Wet Thursday
145(1)
Equinox
146(2)
Relating to Robinson
148(2)
January
150(1)
Farrago
151(1)
The Base
152(1)
Colloquy
153(1)
The Umbrella
154(3)
Small Prayer
157
UNCOLLECTED POEMS
To Build a Quiet City in His Mind
161(1)
To A Noisy Contemporary
162(1)
The Older Programs that We Falsified
163(1)
Place of Execution
164(3)
That Figure with the Moulting Beard
167(1)
The Bunyip
168(1)
First Anniversary
169(1)
Covering Two Years
170(1)
A Nameless Place
171(1)
The Exposed Reef
172(1)
Rites for Winter
173(1)
If This Room Is Our World
174(1)
The End of the Library
175(1)
Late Evening Song
176(1)
A Musician's Wife
177(1)
The Cats
178(1)
Acknowledgments 179

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