Randall Jarrell was a poet, critic, and novelist. He famously wrote, “A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he [sic] is great.” He also feared he would be remembered as a poet only for “The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner,” based on his experiences as a pilot instructor in World War 2. I hereby apologize to his shade for making it my selection this Sunday night (CW: implied gore):