[Rarebooks] FS: Randall Jarrell SIGNED Manuscript Poem "A War" in THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO
Charles Agvent
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JARRELL, Randall. THE WOMAN AT THE WASHINGTON ZOO with a Complete
MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "A War" New York: Atheneum, 1960. First Edition.
His fourth book. INSCRIBED on the verso of the front blank and SIGNED by
the poet "To David Rogers/with all best wishes/from/Randall Jarrell." On
the facing page Jarrell has also written out the complete short but
powerful poem, "A War," first published in NATION in 1951 and not
collected in a book until his SELECTED POEMS of 1955: "A War/There set
out, slowly, for a Different World,/At four, on winter mornings,
different legs .../You can't break eggs without making an
omelette/--That's what they tell the eggs." Near Fine in a Near Fine
dustwrapper. (#020262) $3,500
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