Description: A Library of Congress Poet Laureate and National Book Award winner. Randall Jarrell had a formidable intellect and wit that endeared him to -- or infuriated the finest minds of his day In Remembering Randall, his widow, Mary von Schrader Jurrell, offers a distinctive portrait of the esteemed poet-critic us only she could have known him. She writes lovingly about the wellspring and character of Jarrell's poetry, his courageous endeavor alter suffering hepatitis to create the celebrated children's books, his lifelong friendships with fiction writer Peter Taylor and poet Robert "Cal" Lowell, his commitment during the last eight years of his life to completing his translation of Goethe's Faust, Part One, and, finally their marriage Mary von Schrader Jarrell vividly describes the restless mind and free spirit they shared in their marriage, resulting in an engrossing intimate collection that could not serve us a better tribute.

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