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Kees, Weldon, 1914-1955.

The collected poems of Weldon Kees / edited by Donald Justice ; introduction to the new Bison Books edition by David Wojahn.

3rd ed.

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2003.

xxiii, 180 pages ; 21 cm

Kees is one of the bitterest poets in history. Yet he appears to accept whatever is, however terrifying or ridiculous it may seem, with the serenity of a saint. Shows calm in the face of certain doom, the ultimate expression of the bitterness at the center of his work.

Poetry, American -- 20th century.

Justice, Donald, 1925-2004.

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.

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