← Randall JarrellLittle Friend Little Friendby Randall JarrellPoems about soldiers and the human cost of World War IIFind on Amazon↗About the authorRandall JarrellAmerican poet and critic whose war poems including The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner are among the finest from World War II. His essays in Poetry and the Age are the wittiest and sharpest American criticism of his era.More by Randall JarrellBlood for a Stranger→LossesWar poems on loss, grief, and the fate of soldiers→The Woman at the Washington ZooDramatic monologue of a woman at the Washington Zoo→The Complete PoemsComplete poems spanning Jarrell's career from war to domesticity→