Published in Little Friend, Little Friend, its violence presaged its author's own sudden death in a 1965 car crash, and its content reflected his service as a navigation tower operator in the airforce.
Published in Little Friend, Little Friend, its violence presaged its author's own sudden death in a 1965 car crash, and its content reflected his service as a navigation tower operator in the airforce. The narrator sleepwalks into military service, awakening in the midst of battle and the title event occurs "six miles from earth," and is cleaned up with a hose. FTP, name this 5-line poem published in 1945 by Randall Jarrell.
Published in Little Friend, Little Friend, its violence presaged its author's own sudden death in a 1965 car crash, and its content reflected his service as a navigation tower operator in the airforce.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner