Randall Jarrell

The Woman at the Washington Zoo

Dramatic monologue of a woman at the Washington Zoo

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Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell

American 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.

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