Selected poems

Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967 (Author). Hendrick, George. (Added Author). Hendrick, Willene, 1928-2010 (Added Author).

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collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln.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.

Record details

ISBN: 0156003961
ISBN: 9780156003964
Physical Description: print
xxix, 285 pages ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Harvest original."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.