These perfect and private things, walling us in, have imperfect and public endings

Apr 15, 2009 13:27

Related to the previous 2 entries, yesterday I was reading (and reading about) the American poet Weldon Kees. Kees was born in 1914 and disappeared near the Golden Gate Bridge in 1955 (as with Richey James there are theories that he ran away to Mexico). He published 3 books of poetry; Ian Hamilton estimated that between them the three volumes ( Read more... )

suicide, literature, poetry

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lifesizemonkey April 15 2009, 13:06:33 UTC
They are rather good. Thank you for bringing his work to my attention, i shall investigate further.

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