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The Complete Poems - by Randall Jarrell (Paperback)

The Complete Poems - by  Randall Jarrell (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <i>American Poetry Review</i>, [with] a broad humanism that enabled him to give voice to those had been given none of their own. <p/><i>The Complete Poems</i> is the definitive volume of Randall Jarrell's verse, including <i>Selected Poems</i> (1955), with notes by the author; <i>The Woman at the Washington Zoo</i> (1960), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; and <i>The Lost World</i> (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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"I believe that Randall Jarrell will have something to say to people for a very long time to come, especially as the world tries increasingly to survive by inhumanity. . . . His poems give you the feel of a time, our time, as no other poet of [the twentieth] century does." --<i>James Dickey</i> <p/>"What Jarrell's inner life really was in all its wonder, variety, and subtlety is best told in his poetry. . . . Always behind the sharpened edge of his lines, there is the merciful vision, his vision . . . an illumination of life, too sad and radiant for us to stay with long--or forget." --<i>Robert Lowell</i> <p/>"Jarrell is the one poet of my generation who made an art of American speech as it is, who advanced beyond Frost in using not only a contemporary idiom but the actual rhythms of our speech. No other poet of our time has embalmed the common dialogue of Americans with such mastery." --<i>Karl Shapiro</i></p><br>

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