Selected Poems

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ISBN: 9780156003964 | 0156003961
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1996

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This new collection of Sandburgs finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburgs life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.

Introduction
Chicago	p. 3
Halsted Street Car	p. 4
The Workingmen	p. 5
Fish Crier	p. 5
Muckers	p. 5
Mill-Doors	p. 6
Mag	p. 6
Onion Days	p. 7
Dynamiter	p. 8
Mamie	p. 9
Working Girls	p. 10
Trafficker	p. 11
Harrison Street Court	p. 11
Gone	p. 12
Soiled Dove	p. 13
Old Woman	p. 13
Washerwoman	p. 14
Gypsy Mother	p. 14
Implications	p. 15
Graceland	p. 16
Skyscraper	p. 17
The People, Yes, No. 81	p. 19
The Windy City	p. 21
Fog	p. 37
Sketch	p. 37
Lost	p. 38
Flux	p. 38
Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard	p. 38
Window	p. 39
Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window	p. 39
Prairie Waters by Night	p. 40
Bee Song	p. 40
Bumble Bee Days	p. 41
Jan Kubelik	p. 41
Chinese Letters or Korean	p. 42
Painted Fishes	p. 43
These Valleys Seem Old	p. 43
Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn	p. 45
Billy Sunday	p. 49
The Eastland	p. 52
Anna Imroth	p. 54
The Hammer	p. 54
Child of the Romans	p. 55
Southern Pacific	p. 55
'Boes	p. 56
Taking on Suds Men Talk	p. 57
Glimmer	p. 58
Jerry	p. 59
Horses and Men in Rain	p. 59
Hoodlums	p. 60
The Mayor of Gary	p. 61
Blacklisted	p. 62
The Machine	p. 62
Legal Midnight Hour	p. 63
Paula	p. 67
White Shoulders	p. 67
June	p. 68
Poppies	p. 68
Margaret	p. 68
Baby Toes	p. 69
Helga	p. 69
Spanish	p. 70
You and a Sickle Moon	p. 70
In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown	p. 71
She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him	p. 72
An Interwoven Man and Women Talked	p. 73
Troth Tryst	p. 73
Offering and Rebuff	p. 74
Hellcat	p. 75
Bilbea	p. 75
Fire-Logs	p. 79
In a Back Alley	p. 79
Knucks	p. 79
The People, Yes, No. 57	p. 81
The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany	p. 86
Abraham Lincoln's Father and Mother	p. 89
Lincoln	p. 91
Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves	p. 92
Journey and Oath	p. 95
Untitled	p. 96
House	p. 101
Old Timers	p. 102
Ready to Kill	p. 103
Killers	p. 104
Planked Whitefish	p. 105
Murmurings in a Field Hospital	p. 106
Buttons	p. 107
Salvage	p. 107
Wars	p. 108
A Million Young Workmen, 1915	p. 109
In the Shadow of the Palace	p. 110
The Four Brothers	p. 110
Nearer Than Any Mother's Heart Wishes	p. 116
Open Letter to the Poet-Forsaken Archibald MacLeish Who Has Forsaken His Massachusetts Farm to Make Propaganda for Freedom	p. 129
The Man with the Broken Fingers	p. 130
Forgotten Wars	p. 133
Grass	p. 134
To a Poet	p. 137
Memoir of a Proud Boy	p. 137
Napoleon	p. 139
Hawthorne	p. 140
Mr. Blake's Chariots	p. 140
Evidence As to a She Devil	p. 141
Arms	p. 142
Eugene V. Debs	p. 142
Ezra	p. 143
Good Babies Make Good Poems	p. 144
From an Illinois Prairie Hut	p. 145
Letters to Dead Imagists	p. 146
Illinois Farmer	p. 146
Osawatomie	p. 147
Grieg Being Dead	p. 148
Sherwood Anderson	p. 148
Jack London and O. Henry	p. 149
Without the Cane and the Derby	p. 150
To the Ghost of John Milton	p. 152
Mysterious Biography	p. 153
Mr. Longfellow and His Boy	p. 153
Dan	p. 156
Jazz Fantasia	p. 159
Sojourner Truth Speaking	p. 159
The People, Yes, No. 55	p. 161
Cleo	p. 162
Black Prophetess	p. 162
Elizabeth Umpstead	p. 164
Sayings of Henry Stephens	p. 165
Nigger	p. 168
Man, the Man-Hunter	p. 169
I Am the People, the Mob	p. 173
A Reporter in Debt	p. 174
My People	p. 174
Poems Done on a Late Night Car	p. 175
Prairie	p. 176
Cartoon	p. 184
Smoke and Steel	p. 184
The Lawyers Know Too Much	p. 190
The Liars	p. 191
Threes	p. 194
Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier	p. 195
Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To	p. 195
Slabs of the Sunburnt West	p. 197
A Couple	p. 206
The People, Yes, Nos. 1, 4, 20, 37, 58, 78, 107	p. 207
Timesweep	p. 222
Chicago Poet	p. 241
Phizzog	p. 241
Wilderness	p. 242
Broken-Face Gargoyles	p. 243
Aprons of Silence	p. 245
The Road and the End	p. 246
Style	p. 247
Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs	p. 247
Cool Tombs	p. 251
Old Osawatomie	p. 251
Hats	p. 252
Accomplished Facts	p. 252
Buffalo Dusk	p. 253
The Abracadabra Boys	p. 254
Our Hells	p. 254
Moonlight and Maggots	p. 255
Biography	p. 258
Breathing Tokens	p. 259
Monday, One P.M.	p. 263
Government	p. 265
I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon	p. 266
Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry	p. 269
Acknowledgments	p. 272
Original Publication Sources	p. 273
Selected Bibliography	p. 277
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 279
About the Editors	p. 285
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