The Collected Poems of Weldon Keesshowcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (191455).

Donald Justice is a preeminent American poet whose books include Oblivion: On Writers and Writing and New and Selected Poems. Distinguished poet David Wojahn is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. His collections of poetry include Spirit Cabinet and Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry.

THE LAST MAN

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Subtitle

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(1)

Part I Statement with Rhymes

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(13)

Two Cities

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(1)

The Speakers

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(1)

Corsage

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(1)

The Inquiry

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(1)

The Situation Clarified

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(1)

Variations on a Theme by Joyce

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(1)

Praise to the Mind

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(1)

What the Spider Heard

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(1)

White Collar Ballad

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(1)

For My Daughter

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(1)

The Scene of the Crime

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(1)

For H.V. (1901-1927)

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(1)

Part II June 1940

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(14)

After the Trial

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(2)

The Party

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(1)

A Cornucopia for Daily Use

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(2)

Resort

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(1)

The Caterpillar and the Men from Cambridge

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(1)

On a Painting by Rousseau

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(1)

Aunt Elizabeth

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(1)

Early Winter

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(1)

To the North

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(1)

Scream as You Leave

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(1)

When the Lease Is Up

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(1)

Part III Henry James at Newport

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Stale Weather

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(1)

Midnight

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(1)

Obituary

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(1)

Fugue

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(1)

Insectae Borinquenses

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(1)

The Forests

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(1)

The View of the Castle

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(1)

To a Contemporary

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(1)

Homage to Arthur Waley

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(1)

The City as Hero

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(1)

Lines for an Album

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The Smiles of the Bathers

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THE FALL OF THE MAGICIANS

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Part One

Eight Variations

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The Conversation in the Drawing Room

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(2)

The Contours of Fixation

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(1)

Moving Target

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The Patient is Rallying

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Report of the Meeting

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(2)

Part Two

Robinson

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(1)

The Ambassadors

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(2)

Dynamite for Operas

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(1)

Sestina: Travel Notes

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(2)

Five Villanelles

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(4)

A Brief Introduction to the History of Culture

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(1)

Poem Instead of a Letter

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That Winter

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Abstracts of Dissertations

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Girl at Midnight

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Crime Club

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Xantha Street

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Part Three

A Good Chord on a Bad Piano

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River Song

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The Heat in the Room

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The Bell from Europe

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The Doctor Will Return

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Year's End

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(1)

Death Under Glass

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Routes to Headquarters

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Part Four [Variations on a Theme by Joyce

Praise to the Mind

White Collar Ballad

For My Daughter

For H.V. (1901-1927)

After the Trial

A Cornucopia for Daily Use

Aunt Elizabeth

Early Winter

To the North

Obituary

The View of the Castle

The Smiles of the Bathers]

POEMS 1947-1954

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Part One

The Hourglass

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(7)

The Lives

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(1)

The Testimony of James Apthorp

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(3)

Round

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(1)

Turtle

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A Pastiche for Eve

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Return of the Ghost

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1926

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The Upstairs Room

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Guide to the Symphony

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(2)

Land's End

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Saratoga Ending

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(2)

Dog

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Testimonies

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(2)

Travels in North America

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(5)

Part Two

La Vita Nuova

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Back

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(1)

Dead March

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The Locusts, the Plaza, the Room

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Weather for Pilgrims

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(2)

Interregnum

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Problems of a Journalist

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A Late History

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(2)

Aspects of Robinson

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The Clinic

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Speeches and Lyric for a Play

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(3)

The Beach in August

135

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Robinson at Home

136

(1)

A Distance from the Sea

137

(3)

A Salvo for Hans Hofmann

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(1)

Part Three

The Darkness

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The Coming of the Plague

142

(1)

The Furies

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(2)

Wet Thursday

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(1)

Equinox

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(2)

Relating to Robinson

148

(2)

January

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(1)

Farrago

151

(1)

The Base

152

(1)

Colloquy

153

(1)

The Umbrella

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(3)

Small Prayer

157

UNCOLLECTED POEMS

To Build a Quiet City in His Mind

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To A Noisy Contemporary

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The Older Programs that We Falsified

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Place of Execution

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(3)

That Figure with the Moulting Beard

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The Bunyip

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First Anniversary

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Covering Two Years

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A Nameless Place

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The Exposed Reef

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Rites for Winter

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If This Room Is Our World

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The End of the Library

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Late Evening Song

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A Musician's Wife

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The Cats

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Acknowledgments

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