By Wallace Stegner. Random House.
227 pp. $21
By
Christa Wolf. Trans. by Heike Sckwarzbauer and
Rick Takvorian. Farrar Straus. 295 pp. $25
THE AUTHOR'S DIMENSION: Selected
By Robert Hughes. Oxford Univ. Press/
New York Public Library. 210 pp. $19.95
By Joseph J. Ellis.
Norton. 277 pp. $25
By Robert D.
Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y.
Nanetti. Princeton. 258 pp. $24.95
By Kay
Redfield Jamison. Free Press. 370 pp. $24.95
By Richard Leakey and
Roger Lewin. Doubleday. 375 pp. $25
By Thomas Powers. Knopf.
610 pp. $27.50
If Weldon Kees were alive today, he would be 79 years old; but the first thing that makes this unthinkable is his poems. Their vehement bleakness makes it all too plausible that on July 19, 1955, when a car registered in his name was found near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the 41-year-old Weldon Kees had committed suicide.