Sharp, Cynthia Letter from Maurice Sendak to Randall and Mary Jarrell Letter from "Der bat artist" (Maurice Sendak) to Dear Bat Poet & Wife (Randall and Mary Jarrell) with an illustration of a bat holding a paint brush instead of a signature. Mentions the release of the book The Bat-Poet, by Randall Jarrell with pictures by Maurice Sendak. 1169-005.6.u.1 22662 1028 1964 eng text letters (correspondence) 14.8cm x 19.8cm Sendak, Maurice Correspondence Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 Correspondence Sendak, Maurice creator Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 contributor Hegler, Sarah 8/31/2012 Special Collections Staff Pick Collection staffpick 1169-005 Letter from Maurice Sendak to Randall and Mary Jarrell Letter from "Der bat artist" (Maurice Sendak) to Dear Bat Poet & Wife (Randall and Mary Jarrell) with an illustration of a bat holding a paint brush instead of a signature. Mentions the release of the book The Bat-Poet, by Randall Jarrell with pictures by Maurice Sendak. Sendak, Maurice Sendak, Maurice--Correspondence Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965 1964 Text letters (correspondence) J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 22662 Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965--Correspondence Poet Randall Jarrell collaborated on three children’s books with illustrator Maurice Sendak: Fly by Night (1976), The Animal Family (1965) and The Bat-Poet (1964). Of the three, The Bat-Poet has always been my favorite. Shortly before publication of The Bat Poet, in 1964, Sendak sent this undated letter to Jarrell. In place of a signature, Sendak signed his letter with a characteristically charming and tiny pen & ink cartoon of himself in the guise of “Der Bat Artist” flourishing his brush in hand (or foot) and about to create. The miniature drawing perfectly captures the spirit of Jarrell’s poetic hero, who, like a real human child, tale is just so eager and sweet and shy and curious, yet manages all this without being too cloying. The small bat wants to know things, and then he wants to sing, and when that doesn’t work, he begins to make up poems, trying to express himself. He sets out to explore the day world, for example, and he gets a creative crush on the vain yet talented mockingbird. Little by little, he puts his observations into words. When he received Sendak’s letter, Jarrell filed it carefully inside his copy of The Bat Poet, where it remained until Joyner Library acquired it in 2010. local, filename 22662.0001 51924468 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 6dcf9ca7b17968ca71618770bb863c68 ecu:digital_collections 3445 5022 RGB 148 mm 198 mm 20120720 Khazanie, Rita Epson Expression 10000XL Silverfast Ai v6.6.1r6 object plane in. 525 1 525 1 8 integer 3 internal