Carl Sandburg

Honey and Salt (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet with "a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet-upon his death, President Lyndon B.Johnson said "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America." In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing-life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. "A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years." - Chicago Tribune

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544416932
• Artikelnr.: 42330016

Autorenporträt

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.