The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

<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><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>