Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a virtual movie of the American poet and artist Weldon Kees reading "Robinson" a typically melancholy poem from a poet who as as an artist composed his beautiful sad enigmatic poems in the manner that an an artist creates a dialogue through painting a scene. It is over half a century since San Francisco police found a 1954 Plymouth Savoy on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. On Tuesday, July 19, 1955, a highway patrol reported that the car, belonging to a Weldon Kees, had been discovered with the keys in the ignition. Two of Kees's friends, Michael Grieg and Adrian Wilson, went to search the apartment of the missing man. There they found, among other things, his cat, Lonesome, and a pair of red socks in a sink. His wallet, watch, and sleeping bag were missing. So was his savings-account book, although the balance, which stood at more than eight hundred dollars, would remain that way. There was no suicide note.
Nobody has seen or heard from Weldon Kees since Monday, July 18, 1955.
Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and attended Doane College, the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska, earning his degree in 1935. In addition to writing, Kees was passionate about painting and throughout his life created many forms of art including experimental films. In 1955 Kees took his sleeping bag and his savings account book and disappeared, leaving his car on the Golden Gate Bridge. It is not known whether he killed himself or went to Mexico.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on tghis video recording copyright Jim Clark 2014
Here's a virtual movie of the American poet and artist Weldon Kees reading "Robinson" a typically melancholy poem from a poet who as as an artist composed his beautiful sad enigmatic poems in the manner that an an artist creates a dialogue through painting a scene. It is over half a century since San Francisco police found a 1954 Plymouth Savoy on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. On Tuesday, July 19, 1955, a highway patrol reported that the car, belonging to a Weldon Kees, had been discovered with the keys in the ignition. Two of Kees's friends, Michael Grieg and Adrian Wilson, went to search the apartment of the missing man. There they found, among other things, his cat, Lonesome, and a pair of red socks in a sink. His wallet, watch, and sleeping bag were missing. So was his savings-account book, although the balance, which stood at more than eight hundred dollars, would remain that way. There was no suicide note.
Nobody has seen or heard from Weldon Kees since Monday, July 18, 1955.
Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and attended Doane College, the University of Missouri and the University of Nebraska, earning his degree in 1935. In addition to writing, Kees was passionate about painting and throughout his life created many forms of art including experimental films. In 1955 Kees took his sleeping bag and his savings account book and disappeared, leaving his car on the Golden Gate Bridge. It is not known whether he killed himself or went to Mexico.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
All rights are reserved on tghis video recording copyright Jim Clark 2014
