Popular Culture Review Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2005 | Page 12

8 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