Research Catalog

Title

Chicago poems / Carl Sandburg ; introduction by John E. Hallwas.

Author

Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hallwas, John E.

Description

xxxi, 183 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Poems celebrate the city and its ordinary citizens, and look at World War I and the struggle of working people to succeed.

Series Statement

Prairie State books

Uniform Title

Prairie State books.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Chicago (Ill.) > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxxi).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chicago -- Sketch Masses -- Lost he harbor -- They will say -- Mill-Doors Halsted street car -- Clark street bridge -- Passers-by -- The walking man of Rodin -- Subway -- The shovel man -- A teamster's farewell -- Fish crier -- Picnic boat -- Happiness -- Muckers -- Blacklisted -- Graceland -- Child of the Romans -- The right to grief -- Mag -- Onion days -- Population drifts -- Cripple -- A fence -- Anna Imroth -- Working girls -- Mamie -- Personality -- Cumulatives -- To certain journeyman -- Chamfort -- Limited -- The has-been -- In a back alley -- A coin -- Dynamiter -- Ice handler -- Jack -- Fellow citizens -- Nigger -- Two neighbors -- Style -- To Beachey -- 1912 -- Under a hat rim -- In a breath -- Bath -- Bronzes -- Dunes -- On the way -- Ready to kill -- To a contemporary bunkshooter -- Skyscraper -- Fog -- Pool -- Jan Kubelik -- Choose -- Crimson -- Whitelight -- Flux -- Kin -- White shoulders -- Losses -- Troths -- Killers -- Among the red guns -- Iron -- Murmurings in a field hospital -- Statistics -- Fight -- Buttons -- And they obey -- Jaws -- Salvage -- Wars -- The road and the end -- Choices -- Graves -- Aztec mask -- Momus -- The answer -- o a dead man -- Under -- A Sphinx -- Who am I? -- Our prayer of thanks -- At a window -- Under the harvest moon -- The great hunt -- Monotone -- Joy -- Shirt -- Aztec -- Two -- Back yard -- On the breakwater -- Mask -- Pearl Fog -- I sang -- Follies -- June -- Nocturne in a deserted brickyard -- Hydrangeas -- Theme in yellow -- Between two hills -- Last answers -- Window -- Young sea -- Bones -- Pals -- Child -- Poppies -- Child moon -- Margaret -- Poems done on a late night car -- It is much -- Trafficker -- Harrison street court -- Soiled dove -- Jungheimer's -- Gone -- Dreams in the dusk -- Docks -- All day long -- Waiting -- From the shore -- Uplands in May -- A dream girl -- The plow boy -- Broadway -- Old woman -- The noon hour -- 'Boes -- Under a telephone pole -- I am the people, the mob -- Government -- Languages -- Letters to dead imagists -- Sheep -- The red sun -- The mist -- The junk man -- Silver nails -- Gypsy.

ISBN

0252062345 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91021284^

OCLC

23969335

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library