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...talent. His collection of Chicago Poems appeared in 1916, followed by Cornhuskers, Smoke and Steel and six other volumes. His talents were diverse, and almost inexhaustible. In 1927 he completed a labor of love, his American Songbag, a treasury of the nation's folk songs. His first novel, Remembrance Rock, was finished in 1948. At 74, he published Always the Young Strangers, a memoir of his boyhood. Always, however, his first love was verse and song. As a preface to 1928's Good Morning, America, Sandburg listed 38 tentative definitions of poetry. Among them: "Poetry is a sliver...
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "The World of Carl Sandburg." Uta Hagen, Fritz Weaver, Folk Singer Carolyn Hester and a singing group known as the Tarriers get together for an informal recitation of Sandburg's poetry and prose with musical interpolations from Sandburg's American Songbag...
Doffing his cowboy hat to the initial applause he proceeded to sing the best from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...
...accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln-The Prairie Years, The American Songbag...
...AMERICAN SONGBAG-Carl Sandburg- Harcourt Brace...