Carl Sandburg Magnets

Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

During his life, Carl Sandburg was one of the most famous American poets. As a journalist, he developed a sense for his nation's heartbeat. That shown in his poetry and other writings. Sandburg is "perhaps the first American urban folk singer", always bringing his guitar to poetry readings. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times, twice for poetry and once for the biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Carl Sandburg, American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Carl Sandburg: Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Carl Sandburg: Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

BECAUSE I AM CARL - THAT'S WHY

A Quote about poetry by Carl Sandburg: "Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."

A Quote about poetry by Carl Sandburg: "Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Carl Sandburg was one of the greatest of American writers and poets. He describes the hardscrabble nature of Chicago in his poem of the same name, referencing the City of the Big Shoulders and assailing critics who only care to see crime, poverty, and moral decay. Sandburg responds: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, Bareheaded, Shoveling, Wrecking, Planning, Building, breaking, rebuilding, ...