{"product_id":"2940169998108","title":"Slabs of the Sunburnt West: Early Poetry of Carl Sandburg","description":"\u003ci\u003eThis is Carl Sandburg's fourth collection of poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis signature style, a rough-and-ready free verse that often transforms into poetic prose, is in full view. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Whitman before him and like Masters and Frost in his own time, he puts his focus directly on life as he sees it around him, life in the rough-and-tumble Chicago of the early 20th century and life in the American West, at a time when that wild country was finally succumbing to civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandburg can be emotionally brutal; he writes of death with a rare and unflinching directness. He can also be emotionally transcendent, writing of the beauty of the world with a soaring eye. Sandburg is a newspaperman turned poet, or perhaps a poet turned journalist; his writing has the direct immediacy of the daily beat. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is nothing dated about his work; in fact, he speaks to us today as if he wrote today, hitting fundamentals about the way we live with clarity and force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freshwater Seas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104737935600,"sku":"2940169998108","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169998108_p0.jpg?v=1763698781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169998108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}