A Sick Child The postman comes when I am still in bed. “Postman, what do you have for me today?” I say to him. (But really I’m in bed.) Then he says - what shall I have him say? “This letter says that ...

On the poet’s bold legacy. All the same, you come away from his critical prose feeling that “you know surprisingly well what the world seemed to one man,” for the essays convince you that the personal ...

Antechapter : Randall Jarrell's life -- ch. 1. Jarrell's interpersonal style -- ch. 2. Institutions, professions, criticism -- ch. 3. Psychology and psychoanalysis ...

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From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

Vivian Gornick is a contributing writer to Book Review. Randall Jarrell once said, in the wonderfully confiding manner he adopted in his critical essays, that without literature human life was animal ...

RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965 edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren. 307 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $6.50. “The public,” Randall Jarrell once wrote, “has an unusual relation ...

RANDALL JARRELL’S LETTERS edited by Mary Jarrell Houghton Mifflin; 560 pages; $29.95 Randall Jarrell never received the attention given his flamboyantly talented and troubled friends. Robert Lowell’s ...

Forecast: With blurbs from Louis Menand and Helen Vendler, this is not an ordinary first critical book from an assistant professor. Look for fans of Burt's poetry and review criticism to seek this one ...