Chicago Poems

Name: Chicago Poems
Author: Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg

Collection of free verse poems portraying Chicago workers, landscapes, and urban life

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Carl Sandburg

Though best known as a poet and Lincoln biographer, Carl Sandburg wrote Remembrance Rock, an ambitious historical novel spanning American history from the Mayflower to World War II. His prose shared the democratic vigor of his verse.

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