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Jarrell, who served in the Army Air Forces, provided the following explanatory note: A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17, B-24, B-25, B-32 and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he ...
Randall Jarrell / dʒ ə ˈ r ɛ l / jə-REL (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress —a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States .
Before her marriage to Randall Jarrell, Mary von S. Jarrell had already written three unpublished novels, which she called her “unfinished cathedrals” [1] and was a well-honed writer, but with her experience in working with Jarrell's work, Mary became dedicated to the act of memorializing Randall Jarrell's works even further after his death (Jarrell, M., Remembering).
Also, while serving in the U.S. Army, the American poet Randall Jarrell published his second book of poems, Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) based on his wartime experiences. The book includes one of Jarrell's best-known war poems, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." In his follow-up book, Losses (1948), he also focused on the war.
Robert Altman – Seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker who flew more than 50 bombing missions as a co-pilot of a B-24 Liberator in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II; Leon Ames – Film and TV actor who served in the field artillery of the U.S. Army and later in the flying corps (the Army Air Service) during World War I
Pages in category "World War II poets" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... Randall Jarrell; K. Jure Kaštelan; Sidney Keyes; Uys Krige;
Pictures from an Institution: a Comedy is a 1954 novel by American poet Randall Jarrell.It is an academic satire, focusing on the oddities of academic life, in particular the relationships between the characters and their private lives.
It was not until a reissue edition in 1965, with an introduction by poet Randall Jarrell, that it found widespread critical acclaim and popularity. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. [1] The novel has been championed by novelists Robert Stone, Jonathan Franzen and Angela Carter.