Cornhuskers

MP3 Audio CD. The serenity and tranquility of living in the wheat fields and in a farm full of plump animals where they play around in the glittery sun. The horses gallop, the cows eat grasses and feed their young, the pigs are busy sleeping in the pool of mud, the geese chase each other, the herd of sheep is never unruly. The sight is so lovely. There are enormous mountains and rivers all around. The farmers labored and the corn planters husk their corn. A beautiful and scenic poem which mentions some places of the poet?s native country.

Carl Sandburg was a poet, novelist and editor from the United States of America who was awarded with three Pulitzer Prizes. Two awards for his poetry and the other one was for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. At his time, the poet was greatly recognized as ?a major figure in contemporary literature?, specifically for his collection of verses, such as the Chicago Poems in 1916, Cornhuskers in 1918 and Smoke and Steel in 1920. He celebrated an ?unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life?, and when he passed away, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that ?Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.?

Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois to his parents August Sandberg and Clara Anderson Mathilda, both are of Swedish descent. He was dubbed as Charles or Charlie by his classmates during his elementary years in school at almost the very time he and his two eldest siblings altered the spelling of their family name to Sandburg.

He worked in different openings starting at a young age of 13, until such time when he began his literary career. He wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children?s stories, and film reviews. Sandburg also gathered and edited books of ballads and folklore. He settled mostly in the Midwest before transferring to North Carolina.