Carl Sandburg
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"By the time this single-volume edition was completed, [Sandberg] had spent a lifetime studying, researching, and writing about our sixteenth president. His extraordinary portrait brings fully to life the country lawyer who would become one of the most influential and beloved presidents of the American republic."--Cover
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of poems by the beloved American author who, as a young man, travelled across the Midwest as a hobo. The surrealistic illustrations, which appear to be rendered in pastels, are appealing; the soft edges and warm tones work well with Sandburg's imaginary. The full-color illustrations are nothing short of breathtaking. Displays the range of everyday topics in which Sandburg found beauty, humor, or pathos. Unfamiliar words are helpfully...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
The original edition of The Complete Poems, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This revised and expanded edition is the definitive volume of Sandburg's work, an also contains 113 poems not included in the 1950 collection. --Harcourt Trade Publishers.
11) Cornhuskers
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1918
Language
English
Description
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...
12) Theme in yellow
Author
Series
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Children delight in the sensory and spooky arrival of autumn.
18) Storm over the land: a profile of the Civil War taken mainly from Abraham Lincoln: the war years
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Bruce
Pub. Date
1942
Language
English
19) More rootabagas
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A selection of Sandburg's fanciful, humorous short stories peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Susan Slackentwist, and Dippy the Wisp.