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Title: Selected Poems by Carl Sandburg, George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick ISBN: 0-15-600396-1 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Intro to Sandburg
Comment: If I were teaching Sandburg, i would use this collection as my text.
The introduction is concise, yet informative, giving some quick context to the life and ideas behind the poems.
Keeping in mind this is a selected works, and not a complete works, think of this as a "best of" edition.
Organized by ideas: * Chicago * Images * Poems of Protest * Love Poems * Lincoln * Anti-War and War Poems * Portraits * African-Americans * Poet of the People * Musings * Poetry Definitions.
By organizing them idealogically, it helps the reader becoming familiar with Sandburg as a primer. You can see his clear cynicism of religion and of religious people, and of his socialistic leanings (he is direct about these thoughts). His "Billy Sunday" is an intriguing look at a man who was just a man, yet spoke about Christ. Though Sandburg was known to be atheistic, it could be argued he had more spiritual thoughts.
You can read his sense of empathy and unity with the common man. Any urban dweller will hum in agreement to so much of his Chicago poems.
Sandburg's sense of rural beauty comes out, as does his pure admiration of Lincoln. Well-said is his recollection of the sinking of the Eastland (a boat which sunk in the Chicago River)... or, rather, his thoughts of how so many people died, and how many might've died.
I could go poem by poem, but the fact remains that Sandburg's style impacts poets today, from the Beats to Maya Angelou, to Gwendolyn Brooks.
I fully recommend this book.
Anthony Trendl
Rating: 5
Summary: great poet
Comment: Sandburg was a superb poet. he speaks in such a raw voice, that the poems cannot help but to reach out and touch you, whether he writes about love, injustice, protest, war, chicago or any other subject.
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Title: Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems by CARL SANDBURG ISBN: 0517072440 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: The Myth of Laziness by Mel Levine ISBN: 074321367X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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