Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Carl Sandburg ; edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick.

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.

Publication

San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hendrick, George.
• Hendrick, Willene, 1928-2010.

Description

xxix, 285 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "A Harvest original."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index.

Contents

Chicago -- Halsted Street Car -- The Workingmen -- Fish Crier -- Muckers -- Mill-Doors -- Mag -- Onion Days -- Dynamiter -- Mamie -- Working Girls -- Trafficker -- Harrision Street Court -- Gone -- Soiled Dove -- Old Woman -- Washerwoman -- Gypsy Mother -- Implications -- Graceland -- Skyscraper -- The Peope, Yes, No. 81 -- The Windy City -- Fog -- Sketch -- Lost -- Flux -- Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard -- Window -- Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window -- Prairie Waters by Night -- Bee Song -- Bumble Bee Days -- Jan Kubelik -- Chinese Letters or Korean -- Painted Fishes -- These Valleys Seem Old -- Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn -- Billy Sunday -- The Eastland -- Anna Imroth -- The Hammer -- Child of the Romans -- Southern Pacific -- 'Boes -- Taking on Sunds Men Talk -- Glimmer -- Jerry -- Horses and Men in Rain -- Hoodlums -- The Mayor of Gary -- Blacklisted -- The Machine -- Legal Midnight Hour -- Paula -- White Shoulders -- June -- Poppies -- Margaret -- Baby Toes -- Helga -- Spanish -- You and a Sickle Moon -- In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown -- She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him -- An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked -- Troth Tryst -- Offering and Rebuff -- Hellcat -- Bibea -- Fire-Logs -- In a Back Alley -- Knucks -- The People, Yes, No. 57 -- The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany -- Abraham Lincoln's Father and Mother -- Lincoln -- Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves -- Journey and Oath -- Untitled -- House -- Old TImers -- Ready to Kill -- Killers -- Planked Whitefish -- Murmurings in a Field Hospital -- Buttons -- Salvage -- Wars -- A Milllion Young Worken, 1915 -- In the Shadow of the Palace -- The Four Brothers -- Nearer Than Any Mother's Heart Wishes -- Open Letter to the Poet Archibald MacLeish WHo Has Forsaken His Massachusetts Farm to Make Propaganda for Freedom -- The Man with the Broken Fingers -- Forgotten Wars -- Grass -- To a Poet -- Memoir of a Proud Boy -- Napoleon -- Hawthorne -- Mr. Blake's Chariots -- Evidence As to a She Devil -- Arms -- Euguene V. Debs -- Ezra -- Good Babies Make Good Poems -- From an Illinois Prairie Hut -- Letters to Dead Imagists -- Illinois Farmer -- Osawatomie -- Grieg Being Dead -- Sherwood Anderson -- Jack London and O. Henry -- Without the Cane and the Derby -- To the Ghost of John Milton -- Mysterious Biography -- Mr. Longfellow and His Boy -- Dan -- Jazz Fantasia -- Sojourner Truth Speaking -- The People, Yes, No. 55 -- Cleo -- Black Prophetess -- Elizabeth Umpstead -- Says of Henry Stephens -- Nigger -- Man, the Man-Hunter -- I Am the People, the Mob -- A Reporter in Debt -- My People -- Poems Done on a Late Night Car -- Prairie -- Cartoon -- Smoke and Steel -- The Lawyers Know Too Much -- The Liars -- Threes -- Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier -- Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to -- Slabs of the Sunburnt West -- A Couple -- THe People, Yes, Nos. 1, 4, 20, 37, 58, 78, 107 -- Timesweep -- Chicago Poet -- Phizzog -- Wilderness -- Broken-Face Gargoyles -- Aprons of Silence -- The Road and the End -- Style -- Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs -- Cool Tombs -- Old Osawatomie -- Hats -- Accomplished Facts -- Buffalo Dusk -- The Abracadabra Boys -- Our Hells -- Moonlight and Maggots -- Biography -- Breathing Tokens -- Monday, One P.M. -- Government -- I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon -- Poetry Definitions -- Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry.

Call Number

JFE 21-7122

ISBN

• 0156003961
• 9780156003964

LCCN

95050686

OCLC

33819013

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.

Title

Selected poems / Carl Sandburg ; edited by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick.

Imprint

San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Hendrick, George.

Hendrick, Willene, 1928-2010.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7122