THE PEOPLE, YES (SIGNED)
by Sandburg, Carl
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 8 1/2" x 5 3/4." pp. [xiii], 286. Blue publisher's cloth. Corners mildly bumped, some fading to spine. Minor shelf wear. Signed Carl Sandburg to half title. Pencil annotations to last three pages; all else very clean and bright. Collection of free verse poems written and signed by Pulitzer Prize winning author Carl Sandburg. The poet Carl Sandburg was born into poverty in 1878. After working odd jobs and studying at Lombard College, he moved to Chicago and became a writer for the Chicago Daily News. Sandburg gained fame as a poet for his unadorned, uncomplicated yet poignant style of poetry. As biographer Richard Crowder notes, Sandburg, "had been the first poet of modern times actually to use the language of the people as his almost total means of expression" (from Poetry Foundation).
Synopsis
A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85937
- Title
- THE PEOPLE, YES (SIGNED)
- Author
- Sandburg, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Americana, American Poets, Great Depression,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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