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Title: The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees, Donald Justice, Donald Rodney Justice ISBN: 0-8032-7809-8 Publisher: Bison Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kees Combines Harrowing Vision with Darkly Comic Sensibility
Comment: If the passive despair of Prufrock (or should we say Eliot in a Prufrock mood) could be entwined with the searing wit and rage of S. Plath, the result might resemble Weldon Kees' unforgettable best poems -- twenty of them perhaps, all included in this book. And the comparison with Plath is fair I think, not because both lives ended in suicide but because both were spectacularly inventive imagists and masters of the craft whose poems peer into the abyss. Although this collection contains some of the most harrowing English language poems of our times -- the final poem in the "Robinson" series, certainly -- flashes of black comedy ensure that this book is as pleasing as it is troubling. I for one, find the following lines from "The Crime Club" devilishly pleasing: "Consider the clues: the potato masher in a vase,/The torn photograph of a Wesleyan basketball team,/...The unsent fan letter to Shirley Temple,/The Hoover button on the lapel of the deceased,/The note, 'To be killed this way is quite all right with me.'"
Rating: 5
Summary: Gripping & Original Poems
Comment: One of the finest books finds of the year for me! Kees poems are complex and intriguing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Chilling poems by a great, forgotten Modernist poet
Comment: The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees is a gem of a book, depressing but deeply moving. Kees was one of the finest poets of the 20th century.
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Title: Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees, Dana Gioia ISBN: 0803278063 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees by James Reidel ISBN: 0803239513 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: "I Am" : The Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare, Jonathan Bate ISBN: 0374528691 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews by William Matthews, Sebastian Matthews, Stanley Plumly ISBN: 0618350071 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry (Paperback)) by Ted Kooser ISBN: 0822953137 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Pub. Date: March, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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