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Popular Culture Review
Kip Kieman, Williams’s first love, was a young Canadian ballet dancer whom
he eulogized decades later in Something Cloudy, Something Clear (1982) v^ere
swimmer-writer August (Williams himself) roams the beach at Provincetown,
Massachusetts for love until he couples with Kip. A photo of the young
Tennessee at the time shows him striding jauntily down that beach, naked from
the waist up and wearing a sailor’s cap.
Symbolically, and physically, connected to Williams’s love of