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The Complete Poems of Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
Includes "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 1996
520 pages
ISBN: 0374513058
Trade Size (reprint)
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Fiction Poetry
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a
diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns
imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry,
whether dealing with art, war, memories of childhood, or
the loneliness of everyday life, is powerful and moving. A
poet of colloquial language, ample generosity, and
intimacy, Jarrell wrote beautifully "of the American
landscape," as James Atlas noted in American Poetry
Review, "[with] a broad humanism that enabled him to give
voice to those had been given none of their own." The Complete Poems is the definitive volume of Randall
Jarrell's verse, including Selected Poems (1955), with
notes by the author; The Woman at the Washington Zoo
(1960), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; and
The Lost World (1965), "his last and best book," according
to Robert Lowell. This volume also brings together several
of Jarrell's uncollected or posthumously published poems as
well as his Rilke translations.
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