Contents ( 199)
- Publisher’s Note
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHICAGO
- IMAGES
- POEMS OF PROTEST
- LOVE POEMS
- LINCOLN
- ANTI-WAR AND WAR POEMS
- PORTRAITS
- AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- POET OF THE PEOPLE
- MUSINGS
- POETRY DEFINITIONS
- A Note on the Text
- Chicago
- Chicago
- Halsted Street Car
- The Workingmen
- Fish Crier
- Muckers
- Mill-Doors
- Mag
- Onion Days
- Dynamiter
- Mamie
- Working Girls
- Trafficker
- Harrison Street Court
- Gone
- Soiled Dove
- Old Woman
- Washerwoman
- Gypsy Mother
- Implications
- Graceland
- Skyscraper
- The People, Yes
- The Windy City
- Images
- Fog
- Sketch
- Lost
- Flux
- Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard
- Window
- Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window
- Prairie Waters by Night
- Bee Song
- Bumble Bee Days
- Jan Kubelik
- Chinese Letters or Korean
- Painted Fishes
- These Valleys Seem Old
- Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn
- Poems of Protest
- Billy Sunday
- The Eastland
- Anna Imroth
- The Hammer
- Child of the Romans
- Southern Pacific
- ’Boes
- Taking on Suds Men Talk
- Glimmer
- Jerry
- Horses and Men in Rain
- Hoodlums
- The Mayor of Gary
- Blacklisted
- The Machine
- Legal Midnight Hour
- Love Poems
- Paula
- White Shoulders
- June
- Poppies
- Margaret
- Baby Toes
- Helga
- Spanish
- You and a Sickle Moon
- In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown
- She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him
- An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked
- Troth Tryst
- Offering and Rebuff
- Hellcat
- Bilbea
- Lincoln
- Fire-Logs
- In a Back Alley
- Knucks
- The People, Yes
- The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany
- Abraham Lincoln’s Father and Mother*
- Lincoln*
- Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves*
- Journey and Oath*
- Untitled*
- Anti-War and War Poems
- House
- Old Timers
- Ready to Kill
- Killers
- Planked Whitefish
- Murmurings in a Field Hospital
- Buttons
- Salvage
- Wars
- A Million Young Workmen, 1915
- In The Shadow of the Palace
- The Four Brothers
- Nearer Than Any Mother’s Heart Wishes
- The Man with the Broken Fingers
- Forgotten Wars
- Grass
- Portraits
- To a Poet*
- Memoir of a Proud Boy
- Napoleon
- Hawthorne
- Mr. Blake’s Chariots
- Evidence As to a She Devil
- Arms
- Eugene V. Debs
- Ezra*
- Good Babies Make Good Poems
- From an Illinois Prairie Hut
- Letters to Dead Imagists
- Illinois Farmer
- Osawatomie
- Grieg Being Dead
- Sherwood Anderson
- Jack London and O. Henry
- Without the Cane and the Derby
- To the Ghost of John Milton
- Mysterious Biography
- Mr. Longfellow and His Boy
- Dan
- African-Americans
- Jazz Fantasia
- Sojourner Truth Speaking
- The People, Yes
- Cleo
- Black Prophetess
- Elizabeth Umpstead
- Sayings of Henry Stephens
- Nigger
- Man, the Man-Hunter
- Poet of the People
- I Am the People, the Mob
- A Reporter in Debt
- My People
- Poems Done on a Late Night Car
- Prairie
- Cartoon
- Smoke and Steel
- The Lawyers Know Too Much
- The Liars
- Threes
- Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier
- Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To
- Slabs of the Sunburnt West
- A Couple
- The People, Yes
- Timesweep
- Musings
- Chicago Poet
- Phizzog
- Wilderness
- Broken-Face Gargoyles
- Aprons of Silence
- The Road and the End
- Style
- Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs
- Cool Tombs
- Old Osawatomie
- Hats
- Accomplished Facts
- Buffalo Dusk
- The Abracadabra Boys
- Our Hells
- Moonlight and Maggots
- Biography
- Breathing Tokens
- Monday, One P.M.
- Government
- I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon
- Poetry Definitions
- Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry
- Acknowledgments
- Original Publication Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Titles and First Lines
- About the Editors
- The Works of Carl Sandburg
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
Good Morning, America, copyright 1927, 1928 and renewed 1955, 1956 by Carl Sandburg: “A Couple,” “Implications,” “Mysterious Biography,” “Phizzog,” “Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry,” and “To the Ghost of John Milton.”
Harvest Poems 1910-1960, copyright 1958, 1960 by Carl Sandburg. Copyright renewed 1986 by Margaret Sandburg, Helga Sandburg Crile, and Janet Sandburg: “Sayings of Henry Stephens.”
Honey and Salt, copyright 1953, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963 by Carl Sandburg. Copyright renewed 1981, 1986 by Margaret Sandburg, Helga Sandburg Crile, and Janet Sandburg: “Biography,” “Forgotten Wars,” “Offering and Rebuff,” and “Timesweep.”
The People, Yes, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace and Company. Copyright renewed 1964 by Carl Sandburg: “The People, Yes, Nos. 1, 4, 10, 37, 55, 57, 58, 78, 81, and 107.”
Slabs of the Sunburnt West, copyright 1922 by Harcourt Brace and Company. Copyright renewed 1950 by Carl Sandburg: “Gypsy Mother.” “Slabs of the Sunburnt West,” “The Windy City,” and “Without the Cane and the Derby.”
Smoke and Steel, copyright 1920 by Harcourt Brace and Company. Copyright renewed 1948 by Carl Sandburg: “Accomplished Facts,” “Aprons of Silence,” “Baby Toes,” “Broken-Face Gargoyles,” “Buffalo Dusk,” “Dan,” “Glim-men” “Grieg Being Dead,” “Hats,” “Helga,” “Hoodlums,” “In the Shadow of the Palace,” “Jack London and O. Henry,” “Jazz Fantasia,” “The Lawyers Know Too Much,” “The Liars,” “The Mayor of Gary,” “My People,” “Osawatomie,” “Paula,” “Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier” “Smoke and Steel,” “Spanish,” and “Threes.”
Wind Song, copyright 1958, 1960 by Carl Sandburg. Copyright 1936 by Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1986 by Margaret Sandburg, Helga Sandburg Crile, and Janet Sandburg: “Bee Song” and “Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance To.”
The World of Carl Sandburg, copyright © 1961 by Carl Sandburg. Narration, Introduction, and Notes copyright © 1961 by Norman Corwin: “Elizabeth Umpstead” and “The Machine.”
Selected Bibliography
Corwin, Norman. The World of Carl Sandburg. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1961.
Crowder, Richard. Carl Sandburg. New York: Twayne, 1964.
Golden, Harry. Carl Sandburg. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Haas, Joseph and Gene Lovitz. Carl Sandburg: A Pictorial Biography. New York: Putnam, 1967.
Niven, Penelope. Carl Sandburg: A Biography. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1954.
——. Always the Young Strangers. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1953.
——. Billy Sunday and Other Poems. Edited by George and Willene Hendrick. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.
——. Breathing Tokens. Edited by Margaret Sandburg. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
——. Chicago Poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1916.
——. The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, revised and expanded edition. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
——. Cornhuskers. New York: Henry Holt, 1918.
——. Good Morning, America. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1928.
——. Harvest Poems, 1910-1960. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960.
——. Honey and Salt. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1963.
——. The People, Yes. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1990.
——. A Sandburg Treasury: Poetry and Prose for Young People. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1970.
——. Slabs of the Sunburnt West. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1922.