[POETRY] [SIGNED] A SAD HEART AT THE SUPERMARKET. ESSAYS & FABLES

New York: Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. 8vo.; in the publisher's blue cloth binding, with dustjacket; this copy signed by the author on the flyleaf; [2].3-211 pages.~~When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it is said that Mr. Jarrell spent days in front of the television in tears. He spiraled into depression. Sad Heart is prescient. It was published the year before the President's death. Mr. Jarrell is the possessor of the "Sad Heart"; the supermarket is our civilization, with its panoply of seductive treats that leave us malnourished.~~Mr. Jarrell died -- perhaps by suicide -- in 1965. Now nearly 60 years later, we believe he would find the sadness unbearable.~~. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.