The People, Yes

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

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.

Summary

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).

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; Poetry, Caribbean islands, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Epic, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Classic and pre-20th century poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, HISTORY: United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, POETRY: American / Asian American, Relating to African American / Black American people, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology), Poetry / poems by individual poets