Works by
Randall Jarrell
(Poet, Writer)
[May 06, 1914 – October 14, 1965]

Audio

• The Voice of the Poet (2001)
  Accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.

Biography/Memoirs

• Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection (1985), Mary Jarrell, ed. with Stuart Wright
  In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. Taylor was, along with Robert Lowell, Jarrell's oldest and closest friend, and the inclusion of these incomparable letters adds another dimension of friendship, artistry, and intellect to a collection already noted for its behind-the-scenes glimpse of twentieth-century American literary history in the making.

• Jerome: The Biography of a Poem (1971)

• The Complete Poems (1969)
  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 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.

• The Lost World: New Poems (1965)

• The Woman At The Washington Zoo (1960) -- Winner National Book Award

• Losses (1948)

• Little Friend, Little Friend (1945)
  First book appearance of "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", one of the most anthologized American poems.

• The Gingerbread Rabbit (2003) with Garth Williams, Illustrator
  Once upon a time there was a mother . . . who loved her daughter so much, she wanted to make her a wonderful surprise. So she mixed up some dough and cut out a beautiful gingerbread rabbit. But she got the surprise when the rabbit jumped up, ran out the door, and escaped into the forest!
  
  Follow the gingerbread rabbit and the mother as they run through the woods finding adventure, new friends, and the best surprises of all.  Baby-preschool.

• Fly by Night (1976) with Maurice Sendak, Illustrator
  During the night while everyone sleeps, a little boy floats up from his bed and flies through the house and the countryside beyond. Ages 4-8.

• The Animal Family (1965) with Maurice Sendak, Illustrator -- Newbery Honor Book
  This is the story of how, one by one, a man found himself a family. Almost nowhere in fiction is there a stranger, dearer, or funnier family -- and the life that the members of The Animal Familylive together, there in the wilderness beside the sea, is as extraordinary and as enchanting as the family itself.   Ages 9-12.

• The Bat-Poet (1964) with Maurice Sendak, Illustrator
  There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.
  
  Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable. Ages 4-9.