Other editions of book Smoke and Steel; Slabs of the Sunburnt West;

Carl Sandburg's "Smoke and Steel" was published four years after his famous "Chicago Poems." Though it is not as well known as that first volume, it shows a maturing of Sandburg's style. It also helped cement Sandburg's reputation as a poet in touch with the pulse of everyday America. "Smoke and Steel" is Sandburg's reflections on the people and landscape of the working people of America.This Alcuin Classics Digital edition of a 1920 public domain edition of "Smoke and Steel" has been carefully scanned and proofread. Because meaning can be found in the format of poems, this edition maintains the formatting of the original book as much as possible. Sandburg's indentations and sometime idiosyncratic punctuation remain intact.Carl Sandburg, recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and a Grammy Award, was a twentieth century poet of considerable celebrity. Since his death in 1967, several schools have been renamed in his honor, and the United State Post Office has issued a stamp bearing his image. He rose to this level of celebrity from modest beginnings. Born in 1878, the son of Swedish immigrants, Sandburg left school at age 13. He drove a milk wagon, shoveled coal, waited on hotel guests, and served in the Army Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Throughout his career, he was known as a working man's poet. The reputation was well earned as he knew manual labor first-hand.During the first thirty-plus years of his life, as he worked as everything from door-to-door salesman to private secretary, he wrote and honed his ear for language. His first book of poems, "Chicago Poems," was published in 1916 when he was 38. His description of Chicago as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders" is well known these many years later.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CALLS Because I have called to you as the flame flamingo calls, or the want of a spotted hawk is called-- because in the dusk the warblers shoot the running waters of short songs to the homecoming warblers-- because the cry here is wing to wing and song to song-- I am waiting, waiting with the flame flamingo, the spotted hawk, the running water warbler-- waiting for you. SEA-WASH The sea-wash never ends. The sea-wash repeats, repeats. Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows? Only the old strong songs? Is that all? The sea-wash repeats, repeats. SILVER WIND Do you know how the dream looms? how if summer misses one of us the two of us miss summer-- Summer when the lungs of the earth take a long breath for the change to low contralto singing mornings when the green corn leaves first break through the black loam-- And another long breath for the silver soprano melody of the moon songs in the light nights when the earth is lighter than a feather, the iron mountains lighter than a goose down-- So I shall look for you in the light nights then, in the laughter of slats of silver under a hill hickory. In the listening tops of the hickories, in the wind motions of the hickory shingle leaves, in the imitations of slow sea water on the shingle silver in the wind-- I shall look for you. EVENING WATERFALL What was the name you called me? -- And why did you go so soon? The crows lift their caw on the wind, And'the wind changed and was lonely. The warblers cry their sleepy-songs Across the valley gloaming, Across the cattle-horns of early stars. Feathers and people in the crotch of a treetop Throw an evening waterfall of sleepy-songs. What was the name you called me?-- And why did you go so soon? CRUCIBLE Hot gold runs a winding stream on the inside...

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