Selected Poems

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.