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This
website is dedicated to
Carl
Sandburg - Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg was virtually unknown
to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the
nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book
Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would
bring him international acclaim.
Carl Sandburg worked from
the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation
from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs.
He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas,
and shined shoes in Galesburg's Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo
in 1897.
Sandburg's experiences working and traveling greatly influenced his
writing and political views. He saw first-hand the sharp contrast
between rich and poor, a dichotomy that instilled in him a distrust of
capitalism.
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