Smoke and Steel: Selected Poems by Sandburg (translated Collection of Orpheus Poems)
by M
About This Novel
Carl Sandburg is not only a journalist and biographer who represents the strength and genius of the United States, but also a poet laureate who embodies the American spirit and writes in the American colloquial language. "He is the United States." He dropped out of school at the age of thirteen and entered the workforce. He saw the world from the noisy streets and alleys of the city and from the bottom of the caravan. He also had an extremely rich experience of wandering and fighting. Because his poems were "people's poems", they were deeply loved by the people and he was called the "people's poet". This book is a collection of Sandburg's poems. It selects the main representative works from his iconic poetry collections - "Chicago Poems", "The Cornhuskers" (Pulitzer Prize-winning work), "Smoke and Steel", "Slates of the Sunburned West", "Good Morning America", "The People, Yes", and "Collected Poems" (Pulitzer Prize-winning work). It contains all high-quality works from his early, prime and late years, and comprehensively presents the evolution of his poetic ideas, techniques and style. In his poems, there are the prayers of steel - smoke-belching chimneys, quenching sprockets, low-level workers in blue; there is the vast imagination - the dreams of humans and machines; there is silence - the skyscrapers entering dreamland and the cornfields soaked in the sun; there is the loneliness of distant times - the open space between the urban rubble and other scenes. Borges once commented: "There is a kind of tired sadness in Sandburg, a kind of sadness in the evening on the plains, the sadness of mud and sand, the sadness of useless but accurate memory, the sadness of a man who feels the passage of time between day and night."
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