[New-Poetry] belated Happy B-day to Carl Sandburg

[jforjames at aol.com]

Arms


  (For Wallace Stevens)


Renoir goes on painting.
A man from south France tells me it is so.
One picture a day, good or bad, the man goes on.
And a little work every day on one big picture for God
      and children and remembered women.
So Renoir, his right arm no good anymore
And the left arm half gone,
So Renoir goes on.


And when you come again
We will go to the Edelweiss for jazz
Or to Hester’s dirty place on the river
Or to some Chinese dump where they bring what you want
      and no questions asked,
And I will ask you why Renoir does it
And I believe you will tell me.




—Carl Sandburg, Billy Sunday and Other Poems, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993)


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http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/s/carl-sandburg.html

Happy Birthday, Carl Sandburg, American Poet
January 06, 2009 
by Lindsey Chapman 

Carl Sandburg was known primarily as a “poet of the people.” But as an artist it is hard to confine him to poetry alone. He dabbled in newspaper reporting, wrote biographies and fiction, and even played music. His practical approach to writing yielde

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