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Title: Randall Jarrell: No Other Book: Selected Essays.
Author: John Boening
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 1Page: 157(2)

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Chapters: Jack Johnson, Chris Henry, Charles R. Drew, Randall Jarrell, Julian Price, Billy Stewart, Rob Moroso, Jay Dahl, Steve Chiasson, Bobby Phills, Julie Robbins, T. Ashton Thompson, Alonzo Dillard Folger, Dick Newsome, Doug Kistler, John Gaddy, Peter Turkel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson (March 31, 1878 June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer, the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, the third child and first son of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson, former slaves who worked at blue-collar jobs to raise six children and taught them how to read and write. Jack Johnson had just five years of formal schooling. Johnson's father was born a slave in Tennessee. He dropped out of school after five or six years of education, to get a job. Johnson's boxing style was very distinctive. He developed a more patient approach than was customary in that day: playing defensively, waiting for a mistake, and then capitalizing on it. Johnson always began a bout cautiously, slowly building up over the rounds into a more aggressive fighter. He often fought to punish his opponents rather than knock them out, endlessly avoiding their blows and striking with swift counters. He always gave the impression of having much more to offer and, if pushed, he could punch powerfully. Johnson's style was very effective, but it was criticized in the press as being cowardly and devious. By contrast, World Heavyweight Champion "Gentleman" Jim Corbett, who was white, had used many of the same techniques a decade earlier, and was praised by the press as "the cleverest man in boxing". By 1902, Johnson had won at least 50 fights against both white and black opponents. J...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=71965 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 ? 14 October 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. His first collection of poetry, Blood from a Stranger, which was heavily influenced by W.H. Auden, was published in 1942 ? the same year he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He spent a brief time working as a pilot, but soon switched to working as an aviation instructor. His second and third books, Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) and Losses (1948), drew heavily on his Army experiences. It was in these books that Jarrell broke free of Auden's influence and developed his own style and poetic philosophy which he would later document in his critical essays. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" is the most famous of Jarrell's war-poems and one that is frequently anthologized. It presents the soldier as innocent and child-like, placing blame for war on "the State." ... Read more

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Title: William Carlos Williams: The Voice of the Poet.(E.e. Cummings: Voice Of The Poet, Langston Hughes: The Voice of the Poet, Randall Jarrell: The Voice of The Poet, T.S. Eliot: The Voice of The Poet)(Young Adult Review)(Audiobook Review)
Author: Janet Julian
Publication: Kliatt (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
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What a rip off
I cannot believe that amazon charges 6 dollars for nothing. I feel ripped off. I thought that I would be able to actually download audio clips from this; however it was just a review. I should have read further. My mistake. ... Read more

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Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.Amazon.com Review
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of usall?" repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. Shealways gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, andthe mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At thenews, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands thehuntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as atoken." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from theBrothers Grimm!

Kirkus Reviews called this collaborationbetween Randall and NancyEckholm Burkert "a sort of legend even before its time ofpublication." Jarrell also wrote The Bat-Poet andThe AnimalFamily, a Newbery Honor Book. Jarrell retained the Grimm (andgrim) ending to the tale, as the stepmother is forced to dance to herdeath. Burkert's illustrations are magical, light-filled creationsthat more than earn the book its Caldecott Honor Book status. Thisdelightful book's extra-large format showcases the fabulously detailedillustrations, alternating two facing pages of art with two pages ofstraight text. This is an unforgettable interpretation of a well-lovedstory. (Ages 6 to 9) ... Read more

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Snow White
This is the real Snow White with all the scary things still in the story. For older children on up.

Memories
Perfect old timey story for the kids. Brought back wonderful memories for my husband. Illustrations are beautiful. Beats Disney's version my a long mile!!!!!!

A Treasure
Jarrell has translated this from the German version as precisely as he could, and it's a pleasure to read a Brothers Grimm story as it was originally written. I love the book, however, for the exquisite illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. They are amazingly beautiful--so precise, sensitive, and well-executed, and yet boldly designed. She places us immediately within the scene and then our eyes move from detail to detail, always finding something new.

This is not a book to rush through. If you're reading it to a young child, who is anxious to hear the story for the first time, you might not be able to linger as long as you'd like over the illustrations (which are not on the same pages as the text). Most children, however, will be as captivated by the illustrations as they are by the story. Jarrell and Burkert have done an excellent job together. For those of you who collect beautiful books, make sure you have this one.

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The Great Cavern of the Winds: Tales from Backbone Mountain

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this was not my favorite book but you can tell that it had to tack along time for them to come up with the pictures in this book. i thought that thee book was pretty easy to read i loved how she got back awak. my favorite part in this story was when she got awak at the end . I think that this was a good book for a fairy tale but you could tell that she was they were in a fake place. so i still rated it a five becuse it was a good book.

The Original Snow White Restored
Quick someone, grab some rope.Disney is down and we need to protect ourselves while we can. ;) It is so wonderful to see this beautiful tale restored to its original depth and content.The translation is marvelous, from showing the queen being overpowered by jealousy, to the interest and friendliness of the woodland creatures.And the illustrations!!No strange little cartoon creatures here, just reagular dwarf men, neither spooky nor kooky.The illustrations are so beautiful, one can't help becoming absorbed in the intricacy and detail of each tree and piece of fabric!A truly wonderful book! ... Read more

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Criticism for the Ages?



Randall Jarrell, a poet of great stature as well as a critic, in 20 or so essays, discusses poets, poetry, criticism, and the merits of several specific modern poets and selected of their works. We would expect a poet to be passionate about poetry, and that he is. But more than that, he is also passionate in his conviction that "Poetry does not need to be defended, poetry...has been an indispensable part of any culture we know anything about" and "Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence." He contends that the average person of today finds it more difficult to appreciate, or even comprehend, poetry than in previous ages because of the diminished role of reading and the onslaught of television in modern America. This was in 1953!

But in rejecting poetry we are rejecting the richest form of human expression, a form that if properly experienced can convey from a very gifted individual(the poet), to the rest of us: impressions of strange beauty, and unique ways of perceiving time, existence, truth, love or any other thing or concept. He acknowledges that the capacity to appreciate poetry will probably be limited to the few, but does not condone elitism. True poetry has not to do with insiders' use of technical devices to show off their superiority, but has to do with the communication of some sort of truth between humans in a form that uses only the right words in the proper order with the proper accents, and uses no more words than necessary, to communicate that truth.

There is a nice essay on criticism and what makes a good critic, which I found quite interesting. I think his guidelines for critical integrity could be applied even at the level of Amazon reviewers. And then, there are many essays devoted to the poets such as Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, and several others. I learned much, but feel as though I only scratched the surface of understanding much of what he critiqued. However, I have the sense that there is much worth digging for beneath that surface.

The main negative to this collection was to me theconstant practice of Jarrell to say things with such ironic juxtaposition, evidently to impart a piquancy and to give just that exact delicate shade of meaning to his discussions. For instance "... it is possible to tell part of the truth about the world in terms that are false, limited, and fantastic..." or "Originality is one of his major virtues and minor vices." This is all very clever, but sometimes began to seem a bit much.

But Jarrell did not spare even poets whom he considered to be great from some rather rigorous criticism. In the same spirit, I thought this was a splendid book, although sometimes its style seemed a little exalted. At 245 pages, this was rather a lot of poetry criticism to digest. Poetry, this quest for the highest level of perfection of expression, and books like this, which help prepare our minds to receive it, seem to me important human endeavors which will hopefully continue to be appreciated, at least by a few.

I believe books like this are well worth exploring, even by non-academic types like myself, who are seeking to broaden their comprehension of our culture. I am personally acquainted with only one other person, a guy in Davenport, Iowa, who willingly reads these sorts of books for personal enrichment. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think there are many who would find it rewarding to try at least one or two such as this. ... Read more