RICHARD EBERHART - AUTOGRAPH STATEMENT SIGNED - HFSID 185806
Price: $420.00
RICHARD EBERHART
His signed ink statement on his poem "The Assassin", explaining that he intended it to
apply to the Kennedy assassination and that a decision was made not to change the poem
later.
Autograph Statement Signed: "Richard Eberhart", 1 page, 8½x11. Below his 5-verse poem,
"The Assassin", Eberhart writes: "This poem was written shortly after the assassination of and was
published in a book of such poems at the time. It had an epigraph telling the above but I was
surprised when it came out in my Collected Poems 1976. As on this page, I cannot remember
whether I or the editors thought it would be better as is, but when I wrote the first time and lines
I was thinking of Oswald. [signature] Gainesville Florida, April/1981". Richard Eberhart
(1904-2005) wrote 20 books, including 12 books of poetry, beginning with A Bravery of
Earth (1930). He won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems in 1966, and the National
Book Award for Collected Poems in 1977. Beginning in 1950, he taught English at over a
dozen universities, including 30 years at Dartmouth. He was Poet Laureate of the Library of
Congress (1959-1961). He did much to popularize the "beat" poets, especially Allen
Ginsberg, in the 1950s. Creased from folds. Otherwise, fine condition.
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