| People Yes Contributor(s): Sandburg, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156716658 ISBN-13: 9780156716659 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: 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). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 90168486 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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). |
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. |