Selected Poems

by Jarrell, Randall; Pritchard, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780374530884
• ISBN10: 0374530882
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-15
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book,The Lost World, Jarrell's poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly intimate or could open up to speak to our common humanity. This collection, prepared by William H. Pritchard, presents some of Jarrell's finest poems to a new generation of readers.

Author Biography

Randall Jarrell (1914–65) received the National Book Award for his collection The Woman at the Washington Zoo. He died after being struck by a car in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he was teaching at the time.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
90 North	p. 3
Absent with Official Leave	p. 5
The Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division	p. 7
A Front	p. 9
Losses	p. 10
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	p. 12
A Pilot from the Carrier	p. 13
The Dead Wingman	p. 14
The Marchen	p. 15
A Camp in the Prussian Forest	p. 19
Eighth Air Force	p. 21
A Ward in the States	p. 22
Jews at Haifa	p. 23
A Field Hospital	p. 25
The Breath of Night	p. 26
Lady Bates	p. 27
A Country Life	p. 30
Moving	p. 32
When I Was Home Last Christmas...	p. 34
A Game at Salzburg	p. 35
Transient Barracks	p. 37
A Sick Child	p. 39
Seele im Raum	p. 40
The Orient Express	p. 43
The Face	p. 45
Deutsch Durch Freud	p. 47
The Black Swan	p. 50
A Girl in a Library	p. 51
A War	p. 55
In Those Days	p. 56
Cinderella	p. 57
The Meteorite	p. 59
Windows	p. 60
Aging	p. 62
Children Selecting Books in a Library	p. 63
Nestus Gurley	p. 65
The Bronze David of Donatello	p. 68
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	p. 71
Field and Forest	p. 73
The Lost World
Children's Arms	p. 75
A Night with Lions	p. 80
A Street off Sunset	p. 81
Thinking of the Lost World	p. 86
The Mockingbird	p. 89
Next Day	p. 90
In Galleries	p. 92
The Old and the New Masters	p. 94
The Lost Children	p. 96
Well Water	p. 99
Gleaning	p. 100
A Man Meets a Woman in the Street	p. 101
The Player Piano	p. 104
Index of Titles	p. 109
Index of First Lines	p. 113
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