| Honey and Salt Contributor(s): Sandburg, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156421658 ISBN-13: 9780156421652 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1967 Annotation: In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 63009836 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing- life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sandburg, Carl: - 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. |