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The Complete Poems

by Carl Sandburg · 1950

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The definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. "A marvelous prosody, a perfect ear for the beautiful potentials of common speech, something he learned from folk song, but mostly he learned from just listening" (Kenneth Rexroth).

Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
epic · 832 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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