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

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.

In his first lecture as the newly appointed Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, highbrowed, full-bearded Poet-Critic-Novelist (Pictures from an Institution) Randall Jarrell, 42, last week ...

PERSON, PLACE AND THING—Karl Jay Shapiro—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). BLOOD FOR A STRANGER—Randall Jarrell—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Modernist poetry constitutes, in its entirety, a piecemeal bible of human ...