Carl Sandburg
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Takes the home-bred American fantasy of The Wizard of Oz even further ... An old favorite, which no American child should miss. ; School Library Journal. "These stories out of the Rootabaga Country... have taken root in American soil -- they are here to stay." -- New York Herald Tribune. "Glorious for reading aloud." ; The New York Times Book Review. In the village of Liver-and-Onions, there was a Potato Face Blind Man who used to play an accordion...
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Chicago Poems is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following 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...
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This classic volume of reportage by the Pulitzer Prize—winning poet and journalist examines the racial tensions that erupted in the Red Summer of 1919.
In July of 1919, a black child swam past the invisible line of segregation at one of Chicago's public beaches. White men on the shore threw rocks at the boy until he was knocked unconscious and drowned. After police shrugged off demands for those white men to be arrested, riots broke out that would...
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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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Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War.
Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg's biography was originally published as a monumental, six-volume study....
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work-driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg...
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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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Joyous, humorous, poetic, and always uniquely American, Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories are an important part of our children's literary legacy. In inimitable prose, Sandburg created Rootabaga Country-where the railroad tracks go from straight to zigzag, where the pigs have bibs on, and where the Village of Cream Puffs floats in the wind-and populated it with baby balloon pickers, flummywisters, Poker Face the Baboon and Hot Dog the Tiger, the White...
10) Carl Sandburg
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Professor and scholar Kate Benzel has carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their families. Carl Sandburg divides the poems into poems about people, and poems about people. You'll find classics including "Young Bullfrogs," "Shenandoah", "Jazz Fantasia", "Fog", and 31 more of Sandburg's favorite and most accessible works. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Robert Crawford. This gentle introduction includes...
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This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet's complete works for children-with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg.
As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children's literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga...
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Discover the power of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to Carl Sandburg, featuring an ode to autumn and the joys of Halloween
In this beautifully illustrated adaptation of a beloved Carl Sandburg poem, children delight in the sensory and spooky arrival of autumn.
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This was Carl Sandburg's breakthrough book. It is easy to see how it draws directly on Sandburg's life in Chicago, as it speaks powerfully of the specific character of that city and begins with his famous poem that names Chicago as the "City of the Broad Shoulders". His poetry is deeply aware of the inner life of the city, from a homeless woman freezing in a doorway to the lifestyles of the rich and powerful. Sandburg, even in his poetry, is in many...
14) Smoke and Steel
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This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging. The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter, work - and a struggle for the human soul, a struggle for love, charity,...
15) Cornhuskers
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Carl Sandburg fixed his eyes on the people of his time and place. He ignored or scorned the wealthy, the comfortable, the complacent, the powerful and those who serve them; he had no time for the ruling class. His eyes were open to the immigrant, the laborer, the hobo, the farmer, the man who works with his hands, the woman who runs a family, or the soldier who goes to war for them. Not for him the Man of the Masses from a left-wing poster, ruddy...
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This is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry. His signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view. Like Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when that wild country was finally succumbing to civilization.
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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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Dover Publications
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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
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2015]
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Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years , with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation's history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam to...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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[1970]
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Includes Sandburg works published in: Chicago poems; Cornhuskers; Smoke and Steel; Slabs of the Sunburnt West; Good Morning, America; The people, yes; Honey and salt; Harvest Poems; Wind song; and, The Sandburg Range.