Poems for the people
By: edited with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.
Contributors: Hendrick, George.; Hendrick, Willene, 1928-
Publisher: I.R. Dee
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Description: "While Sandburg's work has been among the most celebrated in American poetry, a good many of his poems have remained unpublished. He may have regarded them as too radical for the time; others may have been set aside and never retrieved. In Poems for the People, George and Willene Hendrick have selected seventy-three representative poems from his early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print."--BOOK JACKET.

"Many of these poems are from one of Sandburg's strongest poetic periods, 1912-1922, his first decade as a journalist in Chicago. They show him in a variety of attitudes: a critic of fast-changing economic and social conditions in urban America; a walker in the city, observing bums, swells, and bohemians; and a sensitive poet born to immigrant parents."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-180) and index.