Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reve... Read More
Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reve... Read More
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Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reveal the simplicity of style, honesty, and vision that characterized all of Sandburg's work and earned him enormous popularity in the 1920s and '30s and a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1951.
Reprint of the Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1916 edition.
Details
Price: $4.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 20th May 1994
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486280578
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / American / General
Author Bio
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his 1940 biography of Abraham Lincoln and two for his poetry. His classic works include The Rootabaga Stories, written early in his career for his children, from which the text of this volume was taken. Sandburg considered traditional fairy tales about knights and royalty too far removed from the experience of American children and set about devising his own folkloric tales, which unfold amid the farms and towns of the Midwest. Harriet Pincus (1938–2001) was an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books whose works garnered a School Library Journal Best Books nod, a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year listing, a National Book Award nomination, and an ALA Notable Book award. The Wedding Procession was the first of her publications, which include Minna and Pippin, Tell Me a Mitzi, and Little Red Riding Hood.
Table of Contents
CHICAGO POEMS Chicago Sketch Masses Lost The Harbor They Will say Mill-Doors Halsted Street Car Clark Street Bridge Passers-by The Walking Man of Rodin Subway The Shovel Man A Teamster's Farewell Fish Crier Picnic Boat Happiness Muckers Blacklisted Graceland Child of the Romans The Right to Grief Mag Onion Days Population Drifts Cripple A Fence Anna Imroth Working Girls Mamie Personality Cumulatives To Certain Journeymen Chamfort Limited The Has-Been In a Back Alley A Coin Dynamiter Ice Handler Jack Fellow Citizens Nigger Two Neighbors Style "To Beachey, 1912" Under a Hat Rim In a Breath Bath Bronzes Dunes On the Way Ready to Kill To a Contemporary Bunkshooter Skyscraper HANDFULS Fog Pool Jan Kubelik Choose Crimson Whitelight Flux Kin White Shoulders Losses Troths WAR POEMS (1914-1915) Killers Among the Red Guns Iron Murmurings in a Field Hospital Statistics Fight Buttons And They Obey Jaws Salvage Wars THE ROAD AND THE END The Road and the End Choices Graves Aztec Mask Momus The Answer To a Dead Man Under A Sphinx Who Am I? Our Prayer of Thanks FOGS AND FIRES At a Window Under the Harvest Moon The Great Hunt Monotone Joy Shirt Aztec Two Back Yard On the Breakwater Mask Pearl Frog I Sang Follies June Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard Hydrangeas Theme in Yellow Between Two Hills Last Answers Window Young Sea Bones Pals Child Poppies Child Moon Margaret SHADOWS Poems Done on a Late Night Car I. Chickens II. Used Up III. Home It is Much Trafficker Harrison Street Court Soiled Dove Jungheimer's Gone OTHER DAYS (1900-1910) Dreams in the Dusk Docks All Day Long Waiting From the Shore Uplands in May Dream Girl Plowboy Broadway Old Woman Noon Hour Boes Under a Telephone Pole "I am the People, the Mob" Government Languages Letters to Dead Imagists Sheep The Red Son The Mist The Junk Man Silver Nails Gypsy
Chicago Poems (1916) was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people." Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reveal the simplicity of style, honesty, and vision that characterized all of Sandburg's work and earned him enormous popularity in the 1920s and '30s and a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1951.
Reprint of the Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1916 edition.
Price: $4.00
Pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 20th May 1994
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486280578
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / American / General
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his 1940 biography of Abraham Lincoln and two for his poetry. His classic works include The Rootabaga Stories, written early in his career for his children, from which the text of this volume was taken. Sandburg considered traditional fairy tales about knights and royalty too far removed from the experience of American children and set about devising his own folkloric tales, which unfold amid the farms and towns of the Midwest. Harriet Pincus (1938–2001) was an author, editor, and illustrator of children's books whose works garnered a School Library Journal Best Books nod, a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year listing, a National Book Award nomination, and an ALA Notable Book award. The Wedding Procession was the first of her publications, which include Minna and Pippin, Tell Me a Mitzi, and Little Red Riding Hood.
CHICAGO POEMS Chicago Sketch Masses Lost The Harbor They Will say Mill-Doors Halsted Street Car Clark Street Bridge Passers-by The Walking Man of Rodin Subway The Shovel Man A Teamster's Farewell Fish Crier Picnic Boat Happiness Muckers Blacklisted Graceland Child of the Romans The Right to Grief Mag Onion Days Population Drifts Cripple A Fence Anna Imroth Working Girls Mamie Personality Cumulatives To Certain Journeymen Chamfort Limited The Has-Been In a Back Alley A Coin Dynamiter Ice Handler Jack Fellow Citizens Nigger Two Neighbors Style "To Beachey, 1912" Under a Hat Rim In a Breath Bath Bronzes Dunes On the Way Ready to Kill To a Contemporary Bunkshooter Skyscraper HANDFULS Fog Pool Jan Kubelik Choose Crimson Whitelight Flux Kin White Shoulders Losses Troths WAR POEMS (1914-1915) Killers Among the Red Guns Iron Murmurings in a Field Hospital Statistics Fight Buttons And They Obey Jaws Salvage Wars THE ROAD AND THE END The Road and the End Choices Graves Aztec Mask Momus The Answer To a Dead Man Under A Sphinx Who Am I? Our Prayer of Thanks FOGS AND FIRES At a Window Under the Harvest Moon The Great Hunt Monotone Joy Shirt Aztec Two Back Yard On the Breakwater Mask Pearl Frog I Sang Follies June Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard Hydrangeas Theme in Yellow Between Two Hills Last Answers Window Young Sea Bones Pals Child Poppies Child Moon Margaret SHADOWS Poems Done on a Late Night Car I. Chickens II. Used Up III. Home It is Much Trafficker Harrison Street Court Soiled Dove Jungheimer's Gone OTHER DAYS (1900-1910) Dreams in the Dusk Docks All Day Long Waiting From the Shore Uplands in May Dream Girl Plowboy Broadway Old Woman Noon Hour Boes Under a Telephone Pole "I am the People, the Mob" Government Languages Letters to Dead Imagists Sheep The Red Son The Mist The Junk Man Silver Nails Gypsy
