This week, however, I've been exploring the adult poetry of Jarrell so here's yet another one - another war poem (a genre he wrote much in).
The entire work is fabulous, and I recommend it unreservedly. "When the sun rises the world goes to sleep." "And it's just not real," the first one said. "And shadows are black - how can a shadow be bright?"Īnother one said: "What's green-and-gold-and-blue? When you say things like that we don't know what you mean."
"It hurts like getting something in your eyes. The squirrels begin to-But when he'd got this far the other bats just couldn't keep quiet any longer. The black-and-gray turns green-and-gold-and-blue.
The birds begin to sing with all their might. Here's a part from early in the story where the Bat Poet tries for the first time to recite one of his poems to the other bats:Īt dawn, the sun shines like a million moonsĪnd all the shadows are as bright as moonlight. He joined as a member of the American institute of arts and letters.The Bat Poet is about a bat who tries to be a poet, but is misunderstood by all the other bats - and by lots of other creatures, too. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 19, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Maurice Sendak illustrated his four books for children, and he translated Faust: Part I and The Three Sisters, which the studio of actors performed on Broadway he also translated two other works. He wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, a novel, Pictures from an Institution. Poems, published in collections such as Little Friend, Little Friend (1945), of American poet and critic Randall Jarrell concern war, loneliness, and art. He joined as a member of the American institute of arts and letters.
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