Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg recalls his childhood in Galesburg, Illinois.

A compilation of six volumes of the author's poetry: Chicago poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), Smoke and steel (1920), Slabs of the sunburnt West (1922), Good morning, America (1925), and The people, yes (1936); and a new section of 74 poems not previously collected.

Presents the early life of Abraham Lincoln.

A collection of approximately seventy poems by Sandburg, with an introductory "short talk on poetry."

A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Huckabuck Family, Big Buff Banty Hen, Dippy the Wisp, and many others.

A poem about numbers and their characteristics. Features anamorphic, or distorted, drawings which can be restored to normal by viewing from a particular angle or by viewing the image's reflection in the provided Mylar cone.

An epic prose-poem, "The people, yes", is in many ways the culmination of Sandburg's work as a poet. He crafted it over an eight-year period, fusing the American verancular with the details of history and contemporary events. Sandburg's immersion in the Lincoln era had given him an informed sense of history, and he saw striking parallels between Lincoln's time and the Depression years. Believing that economic inequity lay at the root of all social...