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"It is because I love you I give you for your birthday present the aurora

borealis" begins this never-before-published poem by quintessential American

poet Carl Sandburg.The brief text,designed with the air of a

turn-of-the-century love letter, tells of a lovestruck young man who struggles

to bring the "shimmering swimmering" northern lights to the front porch of his

beloved.This stylish valentine for all seasons is luminously illustrated by

Caldecott Honor artist Anita Lobel who lights up the sky in colors and images

that dance on the page.In a style suggestive of Georgia O'Keeffe's, Lobel has

created a picturebook tour de force that speaks to all ages.Handsomely

formatted, complete with a pink satin ribbon bookmark, it is a beautiful

testimony to the power of love and an elegant way to say "I love you"

any day of the year.




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Give it to somebody special--NOW!
A simple fable that perfectly captures the boundless potential of love.A perfect gift for that special someone.It WILL make all but the most heartless teary (but in a happy way).

Not Everyday a Book Like This
Right from the start this book is one of those that just feels good in the hand. A thin aesthetically pleasing little volume it has a red satin ribbon to mark your place and a brightly colored huge red heart invites you inside from the front cover. The text is a love poem by the great Carl Sandburg that has never before been published. The pictures are by Anita Lobel and they are filled with glad, warm-hearted images and colors.
A young man goes to "where the aurora borealises grow" and brings home a beautiful speciman for his true love's birthday. The enchanting swirls of color actually do quite well at depicting the essence of the aurora borealis and its mysterious, magical light show. I know, because the northern lights were swirling in the skies over my home just a few nights ago and Lobel captured the feeling just perfectly.
We follow the young man's struggle to find and bring the aurora borealis to his love and we believe that his feelings are so strong that he really can do anything for his love that he sets his heart on doing. He offers to bring her more aurora borealises or even a rainbow if she would like. This poetical man is letting her know that he will always work hard for her and struggle through life with her which is something a young woman may hope for, but this clever man has found a beautiful and romantic way to say it. His sensitivity to her need for beauty and abundance is the endearing point of the colorful promises he makes in this story.
I treasure this book and I think it makes a wonderful gift for anyone you love, especially yourself.

Pure and amazing.
I'm an avid reader of all sorts of novels.I'veread 'em with thousands of pages, but none of them have ever moved me as much as this little book did.Both the poem and the illustration have amagical, enchanting quality to them.Buy it foryourself or as a gift.It's well worth themoney.

The Most Beautiful Book I've ever read.
This book is so amazing that when i picked it up in the store and started reading it, i began to cry right there in the shop.i've never experienced that sort of thing in before.i bouth the book right there on the spotwith money i had ear-marked for something else.It is just a reallysimple, really beautiful poem about love with wonderful illustrations.Itmakes a beautiful present for a child or even a sweetheart. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Harcourt, Brace and Howe in 1920 in 288 pages; Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / American / General; ... Read more

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Born in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he played, studied, and matured in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg's reminiscence delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life and an invaluable perspective on American history. Index. ... Read more

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The Prairie Boy Returns to Western Illinois
What can you say about Always the Young Strangers, other than it reads as well in 2004 as it did in 1953.Sandburg's look at his boyhood in Galesburg, Illinois has all the elements of opening a time capsule and looking back at the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I am most fascinated by Sandburg's relationship with the Krans family who lived outside of Galesburg on a small farm.The respect that Sandburg accords the Krans' sturdy immigrant spirit permeates the entire book.Read the description of John Krans' death at the end of the book.It brought tears to my eyes.
Sandburg's shakey relationship with his father also attracted me to the book since I had the same type of relationship with my dad.August Sandburg never appreciated his son's writing talent.It took the mother, Clara, to nurture her son's mighty pen.
When I worked there in the 1970's, natives of Galesburg would tell me how much Sandburg hated the city.Always the Young Strangers tells a much different story.The love that Sandburg had for Galesburg and western Illinois jumps off the pages of this book.What a great read!

Always the Young Strangers Always a Good Read
Carl Sandburg's Always the Young Strangers is not a new book but that is what makes it such a compelling read.In an era marked by the popularity of the memoir, Sandburg's tales of growing up in Galesburg, IL at the endof the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s allow the reader to hear adistinctive voice no longer with us speak again. This is not any ordinaryvoice either but voice of a poet clearly in love with words. Though hisboyhood stories are simple, they are rich with detail that allow us insightinto Sandburg's future as a poet and as a most notable biographer ofAbraham Lincoln--in it, for example, Sanburg recalls attending a funeralprocession (probably one of many held across the country in a time longbefore TV allowed the nation to mourn together as we did when JFK wasburied) for U.S. Grant and watching from atop his father's shoulders as thevarious mourners passed. Clearly, this event, along with others hementions, fed Sandburg's curiosity about the Civil War and led him to writehis many volumes about Lincoln. If, like me, you enjoy autobiography andmemoir, you will enjoy Always the Young Strangers.

A Poet Remembers His Prairie Town
If one hears the name Sandburg, the first thing to come to mind is probably "Fog" or "City of Big Shoulders."But in reading this wonderful memoir, we are reminded of what a fine prose writerthe man was.The tale of his struggling Swedish immigrant parents findingtheir way in late nineteenth century America and young "Charley"as he liked to be called, as the name Carl marked him as a foreigner, is afascinating glimpse of a bygone time and place. The interesting jobs thatyoung Carl took on, such as traveling the back roads selling stereo-opticanviews, and his conversations with a civil war vet are rewarding andinsightful.I believe this is a wonderful read for anyone with a love ofbiography, history, or simply good storytelling. ... Read more

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Describes Lincoln's first days as President in America suffering with "heartache"...the terrible challenge of the Sputh...the early Union losses...Lincoln's dissatisfaction with his commanding generals...the great battles of '63 at Gettysburg and Vicksburg...the final emergence of Grant as Supreme Commander. Book two of a three-book series. ... Read more

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Abraham Lincoln:The War Years
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received quickly and in perfect condition.
had been inpossible to find in brick and mortar stores

Rediscovering An Old Friend
I first read, "The People, Yes" in 1966, while I was still a high school student. I discovered then that reading and writing poetry was cool. More than anything I had ever read before that it spoke to me in sucha personal way, that poetry could be warm, sad, funny and powerful all atthe same time. While my friends talked about Kerouac, and Ginsberg, and ofcourse Catcher in the Rye, I read everything Carl Sandburg ever wrote. Iused my original copy to teach myhigh school students with until thecover fell off and the pages came apart. It has always held a special spoton my bookshelf, and now I have given this book to my daughter, and shecarries it with her everywhere with her own copy of "Always The YoungStrangers". She said she never knew poetry could be so powerful, yeteasy to understand. Until I gave her this book, she said she hated to readthe poetry they assign in school because "this is poetry. It has somuch to say, and I know he wants me to understand his words, and he doesn'thide behind archaic language, literary symbols or obscure references thatseem irrelevant." The Poetry of Carl Sanburg is timeless. I neverunderstood why his place in American Literature was not much higher. To mehe is the best American poet of the twentieth century, in a class byhimself. After thirty years and hundreds of readings, I still findsomething new every time.

An old friend I'd never met before
Oh, my! To think I never read this before.I knew of it, of course, fromquotes and snippets (my mother took me to see "The Family of Man" at the Museum of ModernArt in New York in the fifties).Why doesn't Sandburg rank higher in our artistic pantheon?Too left wing?Not pretentious enough?More like Woody Guthrie than like T. S. Eliot?Anyway, this is wonderful stuff, reads aloud wonderfully, funny, wise, and you'd better believe it has a message for the nineties."Another baby in Cuyahuga County, Ohio--why did she ask: 'Papa, what is the moon supposed to advertise?'""The public has a mind?Yes. And men can follow a method and a calculated procedure for drugging and debauching it?Yes.And the whirlwind comes later?Yes." A treasure.And fun to read. ... Read more

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A selection by one of America's greatest poets of 79 of his poems particularly suitable for children, to which he has added 16 new poems. 7 line drawings by William A. Smith
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Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. New Introduction by Garrison Keillor; Prefatory Notes by the Author; Index. ... Read more

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Bedrock of American folk singing
Back in the early 1960s when I was a high schooler getting into music, I took this book out of the library and took this book out of the library, and took this book out of the library.

People trying to find great folk songs with both wit and wonder and laughter, heart ache and beauty probably have been doing this since Sandburg published this book in the 1920s.Being so familiar with this book, back in the day, and still today, I can identify different folk singers who have a repertoire of traditional songs by the ones who like myself studied this book and learned to play its songs, and those who had learned from the Lomax Collections, though in all the big Lomax books, there were credits to the inspiration and work Sanburg put into this book, as well as songs taken from this book.

Sanburg wasn't a folklorist, but a poet and someone who liked to sing these songs and play the guitar. He includes a few songs that aren't folk by any description like the very funny "Horse Named Bill" written by a friend of Sandburg's named Sinclair Lewis whom you might heard of!

The legions of folkies who once had only this book and the Lomax collections have spewed forth generations of serious scholars of folk music in this country and the world. Specialized monographs can be found on Kentucky fiddling or the musics of Mali, on down picking banjo, and Black song before the blues.With the specialization that has developed over the decades, few would even attempt to write one book and call it the American Songbag.

Especially if you like to sing and play, this book will take you back to an easier time, with some good songs.You will be surprised at how many of them you know the tune to, even if you can't read the music!

Literature? Folk Song Anthology? Both!
An absolute classic of American arts and letters, the "Songbag" has been cited by traditional musicians including Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. It's a primary source of American cultural heritage.

Sucking Cider Through A Straw
Compiled with difficulty and a lot of elbow grease during the years when American master Carl Sandburg was also writing Rootabaga Stories, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and poetry volume Slabs Of The Sunburnt West, The American Songbag is one of the many valuable gifts Sandburg produced for the American people.A collection of 290 "songs, ballads, and ditties," each entry consists of the extended lyrics and "complete harmonizations or piano accompaniments."

These folk songs are grouped under loose headings such as 'Dreams And Portraits,' 'Pioneer Memories,' 'The Big Brutal City,' 'Picnic and Hayrack Follies, Close Harmony, and Darn Fool Ditties,' 'The Great Open Spaces,' 'Hobo Songs,' and 'Tarnished Love Tales And Revolutionary Antiques,' and 'Mexican Border Songs' among others.

Many, understandably, have a British origin - 'The Foggy Dew,' 'Barbara Allen,' 'As I Was Walkin' Down Wexford Street,' 'Pretty Polly,' and 'The House Carpenter' - while the origin of others, like 'The E-RI-E,''The Ballad Of De Boll Weevil,' and 'The Buffalo Skinners' seem to be distinctly American. 'Turkey In The Straw,' however, like "When The Curtains Of Night Are Pinned Back,' is a "classical American rural tune," and "as American as Andrew Jackson, Johnny Appleseed, and Corn-on-the-Cob." Sandburg provides a brief introduction to each song, many of which are informative, while others are humorous and so idiosyncratic that each only muddies the waters of clarity if taken at face value.American music lovers may believe that 'Shenandoah' is a wholly American creation, but Sandburg sensibly suggests that the original may have referred to the name of a foreign ship or an Indian chief, rather than to 'the Historic Virginia valley.' 'She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain" was adapted by mountaineers from the "old-time negro spiritual" 'When The Chariot Comes.' 'The John B. Sails' has its origin in the West Indies.Sandburg seems to be underscoring the fact that most songs, like most people, come from somewhere else; origins are often hazy and partially a result of wishful thinking.

Musicians, educators, and youth leaders should have special interest in this book, which is as pure a piece of Americana as Duncan Emrich's Folklore On The American Land.The American Songbag will also thrill lovers of Americana and those searching for a legitimate, productive, and useful avenue into our country's history.Highly recommended for all audiences.

...a grain of salt
I purchased this book partly [because of what others ere saying.]The lyrics of the obscure selections from American popular music are of some value but the arrangements of the music and the tune transcriptions are terrible.This is not a book to buy if you are looking for music.

A Treasure
Sandburg's American Songbag is a national treasure. I suppose the words and music of these 280 songs, ballads, and ditties that people have sung forever could be found elsewhere, but where? This important work, whichbreathes life back into some of the most memorable old songs, wasoriginally published in 1927. ... Read more

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE PRAIRIE YEARS is the first volume in Carl Sandburg's epic six-volume biography of our 16th president.

As Sandburg stated his purpose: "For thirty years and more I have planned to make a certain portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It would sketch the country lawyer and prairie politician who was intimate with the settlers of the neighborhood where I grew up as a boy, and where I heard the talk of men and women who had eaten with Lincoln, given him a bed overnight, heard his jokes and lingo, remembered his silences and his mobile face.

"The folk-lore Lincoln, the elusive Lincoln is a challenge for any artist. He has enough lights and shadows and changing tints to call out portraits of him in his Illinois backgrounds and settings -- even if never President." ... Read more

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harvest poems-Carl Sandburg
This is the book I would take with me if I was stranded on a deserted island. Actually, I take it with me on every fishing and camping trip. Itis a compact book which contains all of Carl Sandburg's most popular poems.I have 'The complete poems of Carl Sandburg' and it is a great book to haveat home. However, it is too big to take anywhere with you. 'Harvest Poems'is a small paper back which costs less than $10 and contains my favoritepoems "Chicago' and "Under a harvest moon" . It is sure tocontain your favorite Sandburg poems too. If you are unfamiliar with thispoet you might find a new favorite here. This is not poetry in thetraditional sense. It does not rhyme. It will affect you down to your verycore. I hope you give it a chance and enjoy it as much as I do. ... Read more

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"Carefully selected, this assemblage of Sandburg poems includes many that are not often included in collections of his work for young readers. The quality of the writing is matched by the strong, dramatic wood engravings."--The Bulletin ... Read more

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Ingredients Include Sun, Clouds, Rain and A Wilingness To Look
The thing about cleaning my classroom, as the school year ended yesterday (I am a 1st grade teacher with 25 plus years of experience K-6), is that I return again to wishing for the time to write a fitting statement on all the books from my book boxes. I have thousands to be sorted and held, looked at fondly and to "remember" to help bring me closure on "this group." Books seem to be so important I get them in shape first.They once were the heart of my work.

Now there is ticking, standard, bomb and bust, and "the education politics." We hear those that say we are "failing" even as our system is the one the world would come to join. But this book was one I used in 4th grade a good deal years past, as a transition teacher in a migrant town teaching very wise thoughtful children, very serious ones, because it carries poems I'd put up on the board each AM or distribute copied in something I called "The Poem Opener." From that each child developed a poetry portfolio of collected work over the course of a year. Sandburg bloomed out of this volume, as other days held Hughes, other poets, that I selected to use with them.Beyond that collection, of course, were the room requirements for one weekly recitation. It was just part of the day. Our day.

I did the same in 1st teaching quite proudly until NCLB described the contents of all the minutes in its demanded "new curricular fix" in an under-performing school take-over....which really was narrowing, omitting literature and poetry, art, science, math concept and pretty much anything I once knew as content. That's what they did. It's not what they say they did. It's what they did. It appears to say it is seen as a political act.
And few are willing to lay it on the line and tell you.
However as is happening nowadays it was what was done while denying that was the "intention."
But in 1st we once memorized and recited as a group poems like "My Shadow," or some other piece, that wasn't usually too nonsensical, was NOT written by a textbook company to be sold and actually pointed you into thought, language and the power of the "word." Believe me, that's gone in my world now. We selected work that fit the themes. Ones I invented by knowing just a little. Now we say things that are some of the worst examples of poetry I ever saw, stamped out in a cookie cutter and "sold" as good to do with children. Well they told us so...so it must be so. You'll not see Sandburg then. Not even little cat feet.

All that said, let me describe the book. It's printed on a thick slightly cream paper set with woodcuts or wood engravings. I grew up in linocut classes with Darryl Gray -an artist in my hometown of Morgantown, WV- so I developed early a vast appreciation for this kind of printing. These prints by Fritz Eichenberg are not on every page but they do occur in the book in a meditative fashion as sections change, and really enhance the work. So striking me first, as I have that visual nature coming from a background in art, is my reaction to what a great way to present his poetry against a backdrop of artwork that is strong, textured, black and white, powerful, hard and clean. Each print has a corresponding Sandburg quote like: "Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts."
Or perhaps " Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away." This frames the poetry that follows in the section.

That last quote is shown with a print of a tree in a forest with a sleeping old man. Father Time, Methuselah, it calls out to connection to your own interpretive wits. Just as so much of the poetry inside might ask you to build that ability, over the telling of the critic. Or as is hapening now the silence of the dead.

In schools at one time, and probably today, I've been trained and told that we are not developing critical thinkers or interpreters of literature/life/text which set against a backdrop of insistance on lock step teaching, proscribed curriculum, the deflowering of literature allowed to kids, and the move to workbook sounds like the shell game dialog. It still alarms me when I see the wonderful, rich poetry gone. It's so marginalized as to be invisible. But what, I ask does poetry do?
You should ask it with me i think because it is your world that is losing that connection for a significant number of children that need to have the vision.

Sandburg's work here for kids is not silly. It isn't Shel Silverstein either, it doesn't bounce and slip slide, it isn't snide and it can't really be taken as comparable to these pieces I do see available to kids in bought approved stamped state books where over thought the child is given a piece of alliterative cotton candy. It dwells in a different place.

These are poems of shirts, mothers, the earth, the solidity of man, the infinity of everything else. These are dust and push, lurch and tree, good works. You are clearly within the hands of an able father that is defining the pieces he might wish to share with a child as their roots. The soil, water, the ideas that a child might like to wonder with him about.

It talks about time, people, nation, Dreams, drums, crabapples, Astubula, but really it's his voice , the voice of an observer, telling of as Hopkins says in his Introduction it's telling of moments.Sandburg asks questions, ones that echo the child asking of ice and time, mothers and math.

Sandburg was the son of Swedish immigrants so his work carries this flavor too somehow. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois which iswest of Chicago. His work and life and times took him into labor, writing, reporting, touring, singing. I connected to this book having recently listened to the story of one of his guitars on NPR and hearing him sing a folktune. He was a folk musician/singer. A great writer. And I recall Lyndon Johnson's epitaph for him, recall his passing as those times wrote our many goodbyes. He was speaking to this book in saying:

"Carl Sandburg needs no epitaph. it is written for all time in the fields, the cities, the face and heart of the land he loved and the people he celebrated and inspired. With the world we mourn his passing. It is our pride and fortune as Americans that we will always hear Carl Sandburg's voice within ourselves. For he gave the truest and most enduring vision of our own greatness."

And what of the poetry. Well I like particularly a few that I did put into the binders of living children and I hope the hearts and minds of former students are able to recall it. (Back when, heaven forbid, I did "Whatever I wanted" over what I am assigned to do)
Ones like this one I put here in consideration of Father's Day:

From
The People, Yes

A father sees a son nearing manhood
What shall he tell that son?
"Life is hard; be steel; be a rock."
And this might stand him for the storms
and serve him for humdrum and monotony
and guide him amid sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack moments.
"Life is a soft loom; be gentle; go easy."
And this too might serve him.
Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.
The growth of a frail flower in a path up
has sometimes shattered and split a rock.
A tough will counts. So does desire.
So does a rich soft wanting.
Without rich wanting nothing arrives.


I really love this one.


Soup

I saw a famous man eating soup.
I say he was lifting a at broth
Into his mouth with a spoon.
His name was in the newspapers that day
Spelled out in tall black headlines
And thousands of people were talking about him.

When I saw him,
He sat bending his head over a plate
Putting soup in his mouth with a spoon.



On war, on time, on history and memory:


Grass
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under ad let me work-
I am grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am grass.
Let me work.


How about this one for those I read of late that speak to so much:


Said the scorpion of hate: "The poor hate the rich. The rich hate the poor. The south hates the north. The west hates the east. The workers hate the bosses. The bosses hate their workers, The country hates the towns. The towns hate the country. We are a house divided against itself. We are millions of hands raised against each other. We are united in but one aim-getting the dollar. And whenwe get the dollar we employ it to get more dollars."

Amen.


I'll stop with this because I took it to heart first reading this book as a child and it has been one of my frames:

Little Girl, Be Careful What You Say

Little girl be careful what you say
when you make talk with words, words-
for words are made of syllables
and syllables, child, are made of air-
and air is so thin-air is the breath of God-
air is finer than fire or mist,
finer than water or moonlight,
finer than spider-webs in the moon,
finer than water-flowers in the morning:
and words are strong, too,
stronger than rocks or steel
stronger than potatoes, corn, fish, cattle,
and soft, too, soft as little pigeon-eggs,
soft as the music of hummingbird wings.
So little girl, when you speak greetings,
when you tell jokes, make wishes or prayers,
be careful, be careless, be careful
Be what you wish to be


This is a book that a child carries into thought.

A great way to introduce poetry to youth.
I bought "Rainbows Are Made" for a teenager as a Congratulations gift, and he has since looked up more of Carl Sandburg's work.I'm waiting to see if his curious enjoyment of it takes him any further.For now, I can't think of anything else that would recommend the permanence of this collection anymore than this.

Stays with you
In 5th grade, we had to choose a poem to recite from a book ofthe teachers choice.I was given this book, and fell in love with it.'Grass' is haunting, and subtle word play makes every read seem like the first time. ... Read more

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The Hobo Philosopher
I have a friend who is a poet like myself and many years ago I asked him, "Why are there no poets who write about working people?" He said there are and a week or so later I received this small volume by Carl Sandburg in the mail. That may have been twenty or more years ago and I still have this book sitting on my night stand. It begins with "Chicago" and contains maybe 100 more gems. I know a lot more about Carl Sandburg than I did way back when. He is a good poet and writes the "real" stuff. I like his work very much. He speaks frankly but retains the mystery and needless to say he makes one think. And isn't that what poetry is all about. I try to include a poem or two in any of my books. I got two or three in "A Summer with Charlie" and I intend to sneak one or two into "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother". When I revise Hobo-ing America I am going to add a couple of poems. I love poetry.

Books written by Richard Noble - The Hobo Philosopher:
"Hobo-ing America: A Workingman's Tour of the U.S.A.."
"A Summer with Charlie"
"A Little Something: Poetry and Prose"
"Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother"
"The Eastpointer" Selections from award winning column. ... Read more

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The complete and definitive biography of a unique writer and rare personality. Carl Sandburg was a many-faceted man: poet, musician, biographer, historian, writer of children's books, and novelist. Callahan knew Sandburg personally and worked with him in various historical enterprises. He has done extensive research on letters, diaries, scholarly papers, and other documents in various libraries and archives around the country, including material in the Sandburg homes and especially in the Carl Sandburg Collection at the University of IIlinois. Callahan has interviewed many friends and former associates of Sandburg including Allen Nevins, Harry Hansen C. D. Batchelor, Douglas Southall Freeman, and Ralph McCall; he had the close cooperation of the Sandburg family, especially that of the poet's widow. Literary scholars will be concerned with Sandburg's poetry, his novel, and children's books; historians, with his great biography of Abraham Lincoln.Because of Callahan's association with Sandburg over many years, a personal sense of Sandburg's presence pervades this hook. We e see in full the influences that shaped Sandburg the reading, the poverty, and the social conditions of his early life and his impart on his generation.This book is a vivid description and celebration of Sandburg life, much more comprehensive and detailed than any, previous such account. It is rich and full in striking factual information and revealing and highly entertaining anecdotes. ... Read more