A review by cub_jones
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees

5.0

None are bad, many are quite good, and a significant number are incredible. I think this bridges the intensities and wild, sublime visions of the Romantics with the passions of the modern era with all it's post-war bitterness, desolation and existential horror. Something else that's extremely pleasurable for me is the use of out-of-fashion, pre-20th century strict formats and rhyming schemes that give his work a sometimes chanting, often haunting lyricism linked with a long past. Damn, what a poet.