tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post593161144123256737..comments2024-03-28T14:53:38.827-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Enclosed in Spaceless Epics by Breathless BricksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-56321489281558863252019-12-31T11:25:53.846-05:002019-12-31T11:25:53.846-05:00Child of the Romans by Carl Sandburg
THE dago sho...<b>Child of the Romans by Carl Sandburg<br /><br />THE dago shovelman sits by the railroad track<br />Eating a noon meal of bread and bologna.<br />A train whirls by, and men and women at tables<br />Alive with red roses and yellow jonquils,<br />Eat steaks running with brown gravy,<br />Strawberries and cream, eclaires and coffee.<br />The dago shovelman finishes the dry bread and bologna,<br />Washes it down with a dipper from the water-boy,<br />And goes back to the second half of a ten-hour day's work<br />Keeping the road-bed so the roses and jonquils<br />Shake hardly at all in the cut glass vases<br />Standing slender on the tables in the dining cars.</b><br /><br />at amazon.com it is asserted<br /><br />Chicago Poems (1916) <i>was Carl Sandburg's first-published book of verse. Written in the poet's unique, personal idiom, these poems embody a soulfulness, lyric grace, and a love of and compassion for the common man that earned Sandburg a reputation as a "poet of the people."<br /><br />Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as "Chicago," "Fog," "To a Contemporary Bunkshooter," "Who Am I?" and "Under the Harvest Moon," as well as numerous others on themes of war, immigrant life, death, love, loneliness, and the beauty of nature. These early poems reveal the simplicity of style, honesty, and vision that characterized all of Sandburg's work and earned him enormous popularity in the 1920s and '30s and a Pulitzer prize in poetry in 1951.</i>mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786934467640941804noreply@blogger.com