Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees

Authors

Raymond Nelson, University of Virginia

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

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 as an emblematic suicide or runaway or victim of his times.