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

[Skip Fox]

I had a grad student last semester who loved Langston Hughes but hated
Sandburg. Hmmm.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of jforjames at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:49 PM
To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] belated Happy B-day to Carl Sandburg

 


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)


-----Original Message-----
From: jforjames at aol.com
To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 9:38 am
Subject: [New-Poetry] belated Happy B-day to Carl Sandburg

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 a lone. He dabbled in newspaper
reporting, wrote biographies and fiction, and even played music. His
practical approach to writing yielde 

 

  _____  

Listen to 350+ music, sports, & news radio stations FREE while you
browse.Start Listening Now
<http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlweusdown00000022> ! 

_______________________________________________
New-Poetry mailing list
New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry

 

  _____  


Listen to 350+ music, sports, & news radio stations FREE while you
browse.Start
<http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlweusdown00000022>
Listening Now! 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/attachments/20090107/e9485550/attachment.html