Carl Sandburg Poetry FIRST EDITION Chicago Poems Cornhuskers Smoke and Steel HC

Description: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: Revised and Expanded EditionBy Carl SandburgPublished by Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1970. Stated First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Unclipped dustjacket, dyed topedge. Handsome clean & sound copy. 797pp, index of first lines. The definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. “A marvelous prosody, a perfect ear for the beautiful potentials of common speech, something he learned from folk song, but mostly he learned from just listening” (Kenneth Rexroth).CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career. Widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America. Loc: GL1-2StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackCarl Sandburg Poetry FIRST EDITION Chicago Poems Cornhuskers Smoke and Steel HC The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: Revised and Expanded EditionBy Carl SandburgPublished by Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1970. Stated First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. Unclipped dustjacket, dyed topedge. Handsome clean & sound copy. 797pp, index of first lines. The definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. “A marvelous prosody, a perfect ear for the beautiful potentials of common speech, something he learned from folk song, but mostly he learned from just listening” (Kenneth Rexroth).CARL SANDBURG (1878–1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career. Widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life". When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America. Loc: GL1-2

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