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Carl Sandburg: the People's Pugilist
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg: the People's Pugilist
Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg is widely known as the great poet from Illinois, and especially remembered for his monumental three-volume biographical study of Abraham Lincoln. He was also a journalist, author of children s stories, and pathbreaking songwriter. This new collection of his writings conveys the excitement and tragedy of his times and his commitment to a movement for change.
Like the Wobbly s favorite son, Joe Hill, Sandburg created a rabble-rousing persona in order to provoke a revolution in everyday life. Sandburg s prose brings the romantic figure of the modern poet as a polemicist, an orator for the people, together with the figure of the journalist as a gallant, acerbic muckraker. This figure becomes a vehicle from which to disseminate a radical vision of modern democracy. The articulation of this modern world-view was what composed the Charles H. Kerr Company s house style for its Review, making it a forerunner of such crucial modernist literary organs as Poetry magazine; indeed, it was in the Review, not Poetry magazine, that the best of Sandburg s Chicago Poems first appeared. [From the introduction]
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 6, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780882862699 |
Publishers | Charles H Kerr |
Pages | 282 |
Dimensions | 137 × 23 × 210 mm · 408 g |
Language | English |
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