Randall Jarrell

Jarrell was born in Tennessee and died in North Carolina, but significant parts of his life were spent outside the South—childhood in California, World War II in the Army Air Corps, some teaching time at Kenyon College in

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Blind Sheep, The

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The Sheep is blind; a passing owl,
A surgeon of some local skill,
Has undertaken, for a fee,
The cure. A stump, his surgery,
Is licked clean by a Cat; his tools—
A tooth, a thorn, some battered nails—
He ranges by a shred of sponge
And he is ready to begin.
Pushed forward through the gaping crowd,

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Which French Enlightenment writer's sometimes manic style and radical thoughts are said to have been fueled by drinking upwards of 50 cups of coffee a day?

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Voltaire