Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg was a poet and writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize on three occasions for his poetry and prose, once for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Trying to Write
“All my life‚” says CARL SANDBURG, ”I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. . . . At fifty, there was puzzlement as to whether I was a poet, a biographer, a wandering troubadour with a guitar, a Midwest Hans Christian Andersen, or a historian of current events.”Now, at seventy-two, Mr. Sandburg’s Complete Poems are to be published by Harcourt‚ Brace‚ and as he looked back over the long, dear toil of those poems, he wrote this essay as the preface for his new book.
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Public Letter to Emily Dickinson
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Abraham Lincoln
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Skyscraper Canticle
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Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information … Those Who Make Poems
“Poets cry their hearts out. If they don’t they ain’t poets.”
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