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Title

Poems for the people / edited with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.

Publication

Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1999.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

vii, 184 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "While Sandburg's work has been among the most celebrated in American poetry, a good many of his poems have remained unpublished. He may have regarded them as too radical for the time; others may have been set aside and never retrieved. In Poems for the People, George and Willene Hendrick have selected seventy-three representative poems from his early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Many of these poems are from one of Sandburg's strongest poetic periods, 1912-1922, his first decade as a journalist in Chicago. They show him in a variety of attitudes: a critic of fast-changing economic and social conditions in urban America; a walker in the city, observing bums, swells, and bohemians; and a sensitive poet born to immigrant parents."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.

Contents

• Don MacGregor -- Don MacGregor's Curse -- Memoir of a Proud Boy -- Images and Colors -- Moon Dance -- Sunday -- Wings -- Li Po and Lao Tse Come to Nebraska -- Fire Flowers -- Chicago -- [Two-Dollars-a-Day Wop] -- Crayon -- [Wilderness Man] -- Speed Bug -- Selling Spiel [on Maxwell Street] -- Good Woman -- Now You Take Her -- Bonbons -- The Lower Register -- Studio Saturday Afternoon -- A Long Shot -- Young Woman -- Sandburg to Loeb -- Sense and Nonsense -- The Fleas of Flanders -- The Pie-Wagon Driver -- [Lullaby] -- An Indian Legend -- [Pass This Baby On] -- Character Studies and Personalities -- Terry Hut -- Daniel Boone -- Theodosia Burr -- Alice and Phoebe Cary -- Elbert Hubbard -- [Davvy Tipton] -- Socrates -- Stephen Crane -- Who Was Hannah Adams? -- [Tom Edison] -- John James Audubon -- Stephen Pearl Andrews -- Iron Jaw -- Protest Poems -- Billy Sunday -- Both Ways -- [Finger Pointer] -- [Wreck a Bank] -- [Portrait of a Lady] -- A Talk with God --
• Quotes -- On Account of This Is a Free Country -- Nature Poems -- The Last Star -- Fires -- February -- October -- November Nocturne -- Literary and Movie Criticism -- [He Sez / I Sez] -- Good and Bad Poets -- [Henry James] -- Successful Films -- African-Americans -- [A Goner] -- [Love or Cheap Love] -- John Arthur Johnson -- World War I -- May, 1915 -- [Lilacs of 1917] -- Christmas Cartoon, 1917 -- Everybody in Town Has Been Drillin' and Drillin' for the Big Parade -- The Woman on the Billboards -- Ruminations -- Acknowledgments -- Climbers -- Pigeons -- Two Shapes in Gray -- Two Girls and a Father -- Palooka and Champ -- Green Hair -- Mulligatawney -- Mutt Born -- [Walt Whitman] -- Toward The People, Yes -- They Don't Know It Yet.

ISBN

1566632366 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98044501

OCLC

• 39868234
• ocm39868234

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries