Chicago Poems E-book
Author: Carl Sandburg
Genre: Poetry
American poet, journalist, and biographer of Abraham Lincoln.
Irregular education. Itinerant laborer and hobo. Socialist Party
organizer. Fought in Spanish American War. Heavily influenced by
Walt Whitman's writings, Sandburg's poems celebrate (often in
slangy and colloquial language) the American worker and the
physical beauty of the United States. Sandburg's works include
Cornhuskers (1918), Smoke and Steel (1920), Good Morning America
(1928), and The People Yes (1936). His Complete Poems (1950) won
a Pulitzer Prize.
Chicago Poems (1916)
Sandburg's most popular book of poetry, Chicago Poems, is written
in rhymeless free verse with great variations in line lengths. The
mood of the poems shift from noisy and brash in such pieces as To
a Contemporary Bunkshooter and Chicago to tender and subtle in such
works as Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard and his famous poem, Fog.
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