{"product_id":"carl-sandburg-carl-sandburg-9781598537963","title":"Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate of the American Midwest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eChicago Poems\u003c\/i\u003e in 1916, Carl Sandburg became one of the most famous poets in America: the voice of a Midwestern literary revolt, fusing free-verse poetics with hard-edged journalistic observation and energetic, sometimes raucous protest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the time his first book appeared, Sandburg had been many things--a farm hand, a soldier in the Spanish-American War, an active Socialist, a newspaper reporter and movie reviewer--and he was determined to write poetry that would explode the genteel conventions of contemporary verse. His poems are populated by factory workers, washerwomen, crooked politicians, hobos, vaudeville dancers, and battle-scarred radicals. Writing from the bottom up, bringing to his poetry the immediacy of America's streets and prairies, factories and jails, Sandburg forged a distinctive style at once lyrical and vernacular, by turns angry, gritty, funny, and tender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl Sandburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1598537962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Carl Sandburg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140912271615,"sku":"9781598537963","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa7440b2-6ee2-44db-9268-34806e91fdad.jpg?v=1726597388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carl-sandburg-carl-sandburg-9781598537963","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}