Your Chanel is like the classes of the amazing teacher that one gets so excited for! I’ve sadly never heard of Weldon Kees. I’ll read into it definitely, when a person has so much mystery surrounding them is quite interesting. Thank you for reading the amazing poems as well, you read really nicely! When a poem is given a character name as Robinson, it feels as if that there’s a real person that it’s talked about; not just a fictional character. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Did we slip into the twilight zone there in the last poem you read? Here's a little more twilight zone for you. In the average decade, I don't give Weldon Kees much thought. He might appear in an anthology but it's just as likely he might not (so it's good you're keeping his name out there). But last night, I ran into his name, I think on a reddit thread of people throwing out suggestions of best books of the 20th Century, so I looked him up on wikipedia. To be honest, I didn't give him any additional thought--but here you are doing a video on him--and suggesting he has surrealist tendencies--so I'm re-curioused.
Learning what you run into on Reddit in terms of poetry, by the way, is always interesting. The curious coincidence of more than one radical poetry nerd championing the poetry of Weldon Kees is welcome indeed; indeed we are in twilight days, zoned out by rose of graying nosegays. Since you mentioned (and always do so mention) anthologies, the following is a tremendous fact I wanted to get into the video but failed to do so. I believe I referenced Conrad Aiken's great anthology of American poets in which Master Aiken includes nine poems by Kees; but there is another anthology that includes twice (!) as many poems as Aiken does of Kees: the original "Naked Poetry" anthology from 1969, compiled by Stephen Berg (now of "The American Poetry Review" fame) and Robert Mezey (a poet and a translator of Borges) includes 18 poems by Kees, three of which are Robinson poems.
@@TheBookedEscapePlan Sounds like you've got some great older anthologies and that Kees was duly championed in them. That reddit thread, which came up in a google search, was from about 2012 and you can be reassured that Weldon Kees has a quiet following. You are not alone.
@@TheBookedEscapePlan I love you too and that volume of Weldon Kees has been added to my wishlist. How can people resist reading poetry when there's so much to explore?
Your Chanel is like the classes of the amazing teacher that one gets so excited for! I’ve sadly never heard of Weldon Kees. I’ll read into it definitely, when a person has so much mystery surrounding them is quite interesting.
Thank you for reading the amazing poems as well, you read really nicely!
When a poem is given a character name as Robinson, it feels as if that there’s a real person that it’s talked about; not just a fictional character.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
You're too flattering. I always wanted to be a teacher, so your comments in this response are very kind.
Did we slip into the twilight zone there in the last poem you read? Here's a little more twilight zone for you. In the average decade, I don't give Weldon Kees much thought. He might appear in an anthology but it's just as likely he might not (so it's good you're keeping his name out there). But last night, I ran into his name, I think on a reddit thread of people throwing out suggestions of best books of the 20th Century, so I looked him up on wikipedia. To be honest, I didn't give him any additional thought--but here you are doing a video on him--and suggesting he has surrealist tendencies--so I'm re-curioused.
I love you, and I love re-curioused.
Learning what you run into on Reddit in terms of poetry, by the way, is always interesting. The curious coincidence of more than one radical poetry nerd championing the poetry of Weldon Kees is welcome indeed; indeed we are in twilight days, zoned out by rose of graying nosegays.
Since you mentioned (and always do so mention) anthologies, the following is a tremendous fact I wanted to get into the video but failed to do so. I believe I referenced Conrad Aiken's great anthology of American poets in which Master Aiken includes nine poems by Kees; but there is another anthology that includes twice (!) as many poems as Aiken does of Kees: the original "Naked Poetry" anthology from 1969, compiled by Stephen Berg (now of "The American Poetry Review" fame) and Robert Mezey (a poet and a translator of Borges) includes 18 poems by Kees, three of which are Robinson poems.
@@TheBookedEscapePlan Sounds like you've got some great older anthologies and that Kees was duly championed in them. That reddit thread, which came up in a google search, was from about 2012 and you can be reassured that Weldon Kees has a quiet following. You are not alone.
@@TheBookedEscapePlan I love you too and that volume of Weldon Kees has been added to my wishlist. How can people resist reading poetry when there's so much to explore?
@@poetrycrone6061 I don't know how they resist, but we're going to ensure future readers don't miss out on poetry.