Carl Sandburg
Author
Pub. Date
1951
Lexile measure
1130L
Physical Desc
x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
American author and poet Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), best known for the poetry that attributed to two of his three Pulitzer Prizes, also wrote histories, biographies, novels, and children's stories. Born in Illinois, Sandburg spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina in 1945, where he lived till his death. In the early 1920s Sandburg began writing children's stories for his three daughters, beginning with his "Rootabaga...
Author
Pub. Date
1916
Physical Desc
xi, 183 pages ; 20 cm
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. As Irish poet Padraic Colum said, "The fine thing about The People, Yes is that it is indubitable speech. Here is a man speaking, a man who knows all sorts and conditions of men, who can be wise and witty, stirring and nonsensical with them all. Carl Sandburg is a master of his own medium; he can deliver himself with the extraordinary clarity of the...
Author
Pub. Date
1926
Physical Desc
2 volumes : illustrations facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
xxix, 285 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Superb collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize—winning poet.
This 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's 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....
Author
Pub. Date
1927
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of American folk music. This anthology, culled from coast to coast and from the Gulf to Canada, contains singable words and music to 290 songs, ballads, and ditties that people have sung in the making of America--complete harmonizations or piano accompaniments.
12) Grassroots
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen poems with mid-western themes or settings.
14) Breathing tokens
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 177 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
18) More rootabagas
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
94 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
19) Arithmetic
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English