| Carl Sandburg: The People's Pugilist Contributor(s): Sandburg, Carl (Author), Regan, Matthias (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0882862693 ISBN-13: 9780882862699 Publisher: Charles Kerr OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2009 Annotation: aLike the Wobblyas favorite son, Joe Hill, Sandburg created a rabble-rousing persona in order to provoke a revolution in everyday life. Sandburgas prose brings the romantic figure of the modern poet as a polemicist, an orator for the people, together with the figure of the journalist as a gallant, acerbic muckraker. This figure becomes a vehicle from which to disseminate a radical vision of modern democracy. The articulation of this modern world-view was what composed the Charles H. Kerr Companyas ahouse stylea for its "Review," making it a forerunner of such crucial modernist literary organs as "Poetry" magazine; indeed, it was in the "Review," not "Poetry" magazine, that the best of Sandburgas Chicago Poems first appeared.a [From the introduction] |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.520 |
| LCCN: 2009012533 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 282 pages |
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| Publisher Description: aLike the Wobblyas favorite son, Joe Hill, Sandburg created a rabble-rousing persona in order to provoke a revolution in everyday life. Sandburgas prose brings the romantic figure of the modern poet as a polemicist, an orator for the people, together with the figure of the journalist as a gallant, acerbic muckraker. This figure becomes a vehicle from which to disseminate a radical vision of modern democracy. The articulation of this modern world-view was what composed the Charles H. Kerr Companyas ahouse stylea for its "Review," making it a forerunner of such crucial modernist literary organs as "Poetry" magazine; indeed, it was in the "Review," not "Poetry" magazine, that the best of Sandburgas Chicago Poems first appeared.a From the introduction] |