SELECTED POEMS with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "A War"
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and SIGNED by the poet "For Fred Millett/Randall Jarrell." Above the inscription Jarrell has written out the complete short but powerful poem, the penultimate poem of the book, "A War," first published in NATION in 1951 and not collected in a book until here: "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. Item #022413
Price: $3,000.00
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