People, Yes, The

A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).

About the author

Known as The Poet of the People, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) lived to become a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, novelist, journalist, children's author, and troubadour of American folk songs.

Product details

• Authors: Sandburg, Carl Sandburg, Sandburg Carl
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.1990
• EAN: 9780156716659
• ISBN: 978-0-15-671665-9
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 4531 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, POETRY: American / Asian American, Poetry / poems by individual poets