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Known as a "poet of the people," Carl Sandburg wrote verses infused with soulfulness and lyric grace, and his work was characterized with a love and compassion for the common man. Here is a collection of nearly 100 of his best poems, including "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Masses," and "The Great Hunt," as well as other verses featuring themes like love, war, death, loneliness, immigrant life, and the beauty of nature. These...
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A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet.
Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet-upon his death, President Lyndon Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as...
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The great American poet's essential collection spanning fifty-years of verse, with an introduction by Mark Van Doren.
With major contributions in the realms of journalism, biography and children's fiction, Carl Sandburg was a luminary of twentieth-century American literature. But, he was first a foremost a poet who transformed the diversity of his experience into powerfully vivid and beloved verse.
This selection of Sandburg's poems is culled...
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