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by: Randall Jarrell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780374513054
ISBN: 0374513058
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 520
Publication Date: April 01, 1981
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Sales Rank: 647564
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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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Rating:  - America's Great Poet of WWII
A great poem ought to be huge - grand in scope, but not necessarily excessive in length. Great poetry should tell massive stories with multiple layers concisely and artfully. One doesn't need obscure references, convoluted language, nor self-congratulatory internal winkings. Poetry is supposed to be honest. A great poem should pack a serious punch of power and style and insight.
It's a complicated world and life is complex, confusing, and manifestly difficult to fathom. Poetry is at ... Read More
Rating: - My favorite America poet of the 20th century
Randall Jarrell was the very image of the academic poet. He wore beautiful tweeds. His beard was just-so. He drove a sports car. He was ferociously well-educated. (His wife teasingly called him "arrogant and pretentious." His response: "Wittier than anybody!") His classes were legendary. And he had a tragic death: hit by a car as he walked along a highway at dusk.
And, of course, he was accomplished. In addition to his poems, Jarrell was an acute critic --- those essays are collected ... Read More
Rating:  - An interesting poet
I picked up this collection in order to read Jarrell's fairy tale poems that are included, particularly in "Once Upon a Time." However, with such a large example of his work before me, I found myself reading more and finding bits and pieces which spoke to me. I recommend this collection for learning more about Randall Jarrell and his body of work.
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