Randall Jarrell: October 3, 1956
The Poetry Center presents Randall Jarrell reading from his poetry.
- Originally Recorded By
- The Poetry Center
- Location
- San Francisco
- Date
- 10/03/1956
- Total Run Time
- 00:39:27
- Rights
- ©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
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- Jokes about his head cold's effect on his reading voice (00:12)
- Comments on others' opinions of his poetry and that he will begin with poems concerning World War II (01:00)
- Introduces and comments on "Transient Barracks" (02:04)
- "Transient Barracks" (07:14)
- Introduces "Eighth Air Force" and comments at length on Christ and Pontius Pilate (10:08)
- "Eighth Air Force" (16:27)
- Introduces his poem "Cinderella" and comments at length on his interpretation of the fairy tale (18:49)
- "Cinderella" (27:17)
- Introduces and comments on his latest poem "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" (31:09)
- "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" (36:14)
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