News March 2003
The Jarrell Page has been thoroughly updated now. Dead links have been replaced or
removed, new links have been added, and the links have been rearranged.
Suzanne Ferguson and Richard Flynn to Speak in Greensboro on April 3, 2004
Suzanne Ferguson and I will be participating in a symposium on Jarrell on April 3, 2004
as part of the Randall and Mary Jarrell Poetry Festival, sponsored by the Greensboro,
NC Public Library:
Sat. April 3rd, 10am-12noon, UNCG, Jarrell Lecture Hall, Walter Clinton Jackson Library
Randall Jarrell Community Lecture - The "Place" of the Poet in American Public Life
Dr. Suzanne Ferguson, author of The Poetry of Randall Jarrell and editor of
the recent Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co: Middle-Generation
Poets in Context, will discuss Jarrell's friendships with his contemporary poets
and their role with the Library of Congress. Dr. Richard Flynn, editor, Children's
Literature Association Quarterly, and author of Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood
will speak about Jarrell's children's literature
and "child-adult cross-writing," the importance of childhood in his work for adults.
Portions of Jarrell's poems will also be read. The community is invited to meet
and hear these national experts on Randall Jarrell. Free, but registration suggested.
For more information call (336)373-3617.
The Festival also includes a reading by Billy Collins the following
day, April 4. Details for the month's program are available by clicking this link.
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Now Available from University of Tennessee Press
OK, I'll admit that I have an essay in this volume, but this is a great collection. Ed Hirsch, Steve Axelrod, Steve Burt, Jeredith Merrin, Tom Travisano, and many others contribute essays about the three named poets and contemporaries like Berryman, Shapiro, & Gwendolyn Brooks. Includes a very nice memoir of Lowell as a teacher of Bishop and Jarrell by Elise Partridge. Elise's New book of poems, Fielder's Choice is a must-own book of poems. Robert Pinsky writes, "The unfeigned passion of Fielder's Choice, with Partridge's craft and her stringent intelligence, place it miles beyond most first books. A thrilling, memorable volume."
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Now Available
from University of Virginia Press
Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection (Expanded Edition)
Edited by Mary Jarrell
Assisted by Stuart Wright and Stephen Burt
576 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 22 b&w illustrations
Paper ISBN 0-8139-2153-8 • $24.95
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.
Order from University of Virginia Press,
Amazon.com,
Barnes and Noble,
or Powell's
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Available Now! Highly Recommended!
Stephen Burt's New Book on Jarrell! Destined to be a classic!
Click on the picture to preorder from Amazon.com
You may also order directly from Columbia University Press.
Visit the link for a full description of the book and table of contents.
Newly Published!
A new edition of Jarrell's long out of print anthology The Anchor Book of Stories (1958)now titled:
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