June 13, 2003

The Man Who Was Not There

By SCOTT McLEMEE

Scholars catch up with Weldon Kees, a poet and artist who vanished in 1955

Weldon Kees was a writer's writer. He has a devoted following among poets in

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particular, but little reputation with the larger public. His virtues are not difficult to recognize. Admirers are taken, in part, by his