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    Smoke and Steel: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
    Smoke and Steel: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
    Smoke and Steel: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
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    Smoke and Steel: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg

    Written by Carl Sandburg

    Narrated by Robert Bethune

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    About this audiobook

    This is Carl Sandburg's third book of poetry and his largest. It is also the most wide-ranging.

    The title, Smoke and Steel, suggests the steel industry he knew in Chicago, Gary, and Pittsburgh, but he writes about many other things as well. His over-arching theme seems to be human life as a struggle in adversity, a struggle for the mere necessities of life - food, clothing, shelter, work - and a struggle for the human soul, a struggle for love, charity, justice, and equality. There is also eroticism, subtly expressed, in many of these poems; Sandburg loved beauty in every form, and the beauty of women was not lost on him.

    Here you have the voice of a master poet, a genuinely and specifically American artist, at the top of his craft and passion. Enjoy!

    (A note to the listener: Sandburg, writing in the 1910s, sometimes used language that was racially and ethnically charged in his day and even more so in ours. It seems more honest to leave these few passages unaltered; we did speak this way once, and we do well not to forget the fact.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFreshwater Seas
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781933311524
    Smoke and Steel: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg
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    Carl Sandburg

    Carl Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as “a major figure in contemporary literature,” especially for his volumes of collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed “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, upon his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson said about the writer: “Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America.”

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