The Complete Poems
A Literature, Poetry, American book. The cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten"Till he stirs a little and begins to purr--He doesn't wake....
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 American Poetry Review, "[with] a broad humanism that enabled him to give voice to those had been given none of their own."The Complete Poems is the definitive volume of Randall Jarrell's verse, including Selected Poems (1955), with notes by the author; The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; and The Lost World (1965), "his...
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The cat's asleep; I whisper "kitten"Till he stirs a little and begins to purr--He doesn't wake. Today out on the limb(The limb he thinks he can't climb down from)He mewed until I heard him in the house.I climbed up to get him down: he mewed.What he says and what he sees are limited.My own response is even more constricted.I think, "It's lucky; what you have is too."What do you have except--well, me?I joke about it but it's not a joke;The house and I are all he remembers.Next month how will he guess that it is winterAnd not just entropy, the universePlunging... Oh, Tatyana, The Angel comes: better to squawk like a chickenThan to say with truth, But Im a good girl, And Meet his Challenge with a last firm strangeUncomprehending smile; andthen, then!seeThe blind date that has stood you up: your life.(For all this, if it isnt, perhaps, life,Has yet, at least, a language of its own Different from the books; worse than the books.)And yet, the ways we miss our lives are life. Randall Jarrell, The Complete Poems // The FaceDie alte Frau, die alte Marshchallin!Not good anymore, not beautifulNot even young.This isnt mine.Where is the old one, the old ones?Those were mine.Its so: I have pictures,Not such old ones; people behavedDifferently thenwhen they meet me they say:You havent changed.I want to say: You havent looked.This is what happens to everyone.At first you get bigger, you know more,Then something goes wrong.You are, and you say: I amAnd you wereIve been too long.I know, theres no saying no.But just the same you say it. No.Ill point to myself and say: Im...
Still my favorite American poet, for Deutch durch Freud, Woman at the Washington Zoo, and so on. I have been reading Jarrell for the past year and he completely eludes me, hence no rating, but don't let this dissuade you from taking a stab at Jarrell. The Complete Poems The Complete Poems by Randall JarrellMy rating: 5 of 5 stars"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.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose."'The...
