[Rarebooks] FS: Randall Jarrell MANUSCRIPT POEM in A SAD HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET

[Charles Agvent]

JARRELL, Randall. A SAD HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET with a Complete 
MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "The Sign" New York: Atheneum, 1962. First 
Edition. This collection of essays and fables is INSCRIBED on the front 
pastedown and SIGNED by the poet "For David Posner/from/Randall 
Jarrell/with all best wishes." On the facing page, the front endpaper, 
Jarrell has also written out the complete short poem, "The Sign," with 
one word and a punctuation change from the published version in his 1969 
COMPLETE POEMS. It was first published in 1966 as a broadside in about 
100 copies for Friends of the Library of the University of North 
Carolina at Greensboro. In full: "Having eaten their mackerel,/drunk 
their milk,/They lie like two strands of/embroidery silk/Asleep in the 
glider; The child/repeats, 'It's such a pity!'/And paints on a piece 
of/beaverboard, FREE KITTY." A few spots of foxing to the bulked 
fore-edge of the text. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. 
(#020873)        $3,500

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