The Collected Poems Of Weldon Kees : (Revised Edition): Edited By Donald Justice

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kees, Weldon

Series:

Bison book.

Bison book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1975.

Summary:

During Weldon Kees?s life, his poems appeared in all the most prestigious magazines of the day?Poetry (Chicago), the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, and the Nation.

Contents:

Last Man

Subtitle

Statement with Rhymes

Two Cities

Speakers

Corsage

Inquiry

Situation Clarified

Variations on a Theme by Joyce

Praise to the Mind

What the Spider Heard

White Collar Ballad

For My Daughter

Scene of the Crime

For H.V. (1901-1927)

June 1940

After the Trial

Party

Cornucopia for Daily Use

Resort

Caterpillar and the Men from Cambridge

On a Painting by Rousseau

Aunt Elizabeth

Early Winter

To the North

Scream as You Leave

When the Lease Is Up

Henry James at Newport

Stale Weather

Midnight

Obituary

Fugue

Insectae Borinquenses

Forests

View of the Castle

To a Contemporary

Homage to Arthur Waley

City as Hero

Lines for an Album

Smiles of the Bathers

Fall of the Magicians

Eight Variations

Conversation in the Drawing Room

Contours of Fixation

Moving Target

Patient is Rallying

Report of the Meeting

Robinson

Ambassadors

Dynamite for Operas

Sestina: Travel Notes

Five Villanelles

Brief Introduction to the History of Culture

Poem Instead of a Letter

That Winter

Abstracts of Dissertations

Girl at Midnight

Crime Club

Xantha Street

Good Chord on a Bad Piano

River Song

Heat in the Room

Bell from Europe

Doctor Will Return

Year's End

Death Under Glass

Routes to Headquarters

Poems 1947-1954

Hourglass

Lives

Testimony of James Apthorp

Round

Turtle

Pastiche for Eve

Return of the Ghost

1926

Upstairs Room

Guide to the Symphony

Land's End

Saratoga Ending

Dog

Testimonies

Travels in North America

La Vita Nuova

Back

Dead March

Locusts, the Plaza, the Room

Weather for Pilgrims

Interregnum

Problems of a Journalist

Late History

Aspects of Robinson

Clinic

Speeches and Lyric for a Play

Beach in August

Robinson at Home

Distance from the Sea

Salvo for Hans Hofmann

Darkness

Coming of the Plague

Furies

Wet Thursday

Equinox

Relating to Robinson

January

Farrago

Base

Colloquy

Umbrella

Small Prayer

To Build a Quiet City in His Mind

To A Noisy Contemporary

Older Programs that We Falsified

Place of Execution

That Figure with the Moulting Beard

Bunyip

First Anniversary

Covering Two Years

Nameless Place

Exposed Reef

Rites for Winter

If This Room Is Our World

End of the Library

Late Evening Song

Musician's Wife

Cats.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.