Billy Sunday And Other Poems [Paperback]

Carl Sandburg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1993

Unexpurgated and uncollected poems, many of which remained unpublished because their language was too raw, their attitude and politics too daring. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick; photographs.

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Arms
Ashes And Dreams
Big Stones Of The Egyptian Tombs
Billy Sunday
Black Properties
Cleo
Dailies
Daniel Webster
Dunsany
The Eastland
Edgar Lee Masters
Elizabeth Umpstead
Eugene V. Debs
Ezra [pound]
The First Kiss Came With Flame
God's Children
Hawthorne
Hellcat
I Should Like To Be Hanged On A Summer Afternoon
In Blue Gown And In Black Satin Gown
An Interwoven Man And Woman Talked
Jerry
Legal Midnight Hour
Magical Confusion
Man, The Man-hunter
Monday, One P.m.
Mother Alphonsa
Napoleon
On Re-reading Edgar Lee Masters' Lincoln-the-man Three Years
Painted Fishes
Pearl Diver
Planked Whitefish
A Reporter In Debt
The Rewrite Man Is Tired
Shadows Of April And Blue Hills
She Held Herself A Deep Pool For Him
Taking On Suds Men Talk
These Valleys Seem Old
To Webster Ford
Troth Tryst
Vaudeville: 1916
Virginia Woolf
The Workingmen
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1940 for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and again in 1951 for Complete Poems. Before becoming known as a poet, he worked as a milkman, an ice harvester, a dishwasher, a salesman, a fireman, and a journalist. Among his classics are the Rootabaga Stories, which he wrote for his young daughters at the beginning of his long and distinguished literary career.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Mariner Books; 1 edition (October 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156621444
• ISBN-13: 978-0156621441
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Portrait of the Icon as a Young Socialist, March 11, 2000

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This review is from: Billy Sunday And Other Poems (Paperback)

While most of us may be familiar with Carl Sandburg the biographer, Sandburg the historian, Sandburg the folksinger and Sandburg the poet of "Fog" and "Chicago" fame, most of us are not familiar with Sandburg the antiwar activitist, Sandburg the capital punishment opponent, Sandburg the religious hippocracy muckraker and Sandburg the Socialist. This collection of early works, written while Sandburg was employed as a journalist, introduces us the the second Sandburg. Considered too graphic in content, too frank in language, too taboo in theme and too disturbing in imagery to be published during his lifetime, these poems show us a young, angry Sandburg before he was elevated to the status of literary icon and cultural treasure. As a high school history teacher, I use this collection to introduce my students to such diverse topics as racism, sexism, the "Eastland" disaster, the religious revivals and fundamentalism and the Sacco and Vanzetti trail. Anytime you can get adolescents to volunteer to read poems in class, as they do with these, the lesson plan has to be considered a success and the credit goes to Sandburg for his writings, which to this day provoke lively discussion and strike a powerful cord on the human condition with the common man. Your library is not complete with this brief volume.