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

[jforjames at aol.com]

Skip, I think this book, Bill Sunday and Other Poems, published posthumously is good place to revisit Sandburg...the 'other Sandburg', so to speak...lots of socio-political stuff, taking on opportunistic evangelists, etc. Sandburg was keen on being known as a progressive and not as a 'red'...so there were poems he held back from wider distribution while he was alive. Like in Jarrell's essay "The Other Frost," Sandburg is often known for the wrong poems, in my opinion, especially if he's been read only in anthologies.

Anyone who has kids should introduce them to Sandburg's "The Rootabaga Stories"
http://josephperry.net/rootabaga/

Finnegan

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

 

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


 



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