Honey and Salt

By Carl Sandburg

Book Overview

In these seventy-seven poems, Carl Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that enraged him as a poet for more than half a century--life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, embracing life with warmth and affection, these luminous, intensely honest poems testify to man's courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature.

They ask questions whose answers lie locked in the human heart and reveal once again why, although he won international eminence as a biographer, historian, novelist, and journalist, Carl Sandburg is, first and foremost, America's favorite poet.

This collection features such poems as:

"Wingtip""Love Is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely""Almanac""Biography""Fog""Arithmetic"

"A magnificent tribute to the rich and enduring vitality of a poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years. Those qualities of 'steel and velvet, ' or rock-hardness and drifting-fog-softness, which this poet once attributed to Abraham Lincoln, are so perfectly blended in these poems that the reader is captivated by their alternate strength and tenderness, their pure lyricism and granite wisdom, their measure of honey and salt." -Chicago Tribune

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156421658
• ISBN13: 9780156421652
• Release Date: April 1967
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

CARL SANDBURG--HONEY AND SALT

LIKE A SHARP KNIFE, THE POEMS THAT CARL SANDBURG CREATES IN THIS COLLECTION CUT STRAIGHT TO THE HEART OF WHAT HE WRITES ABOUT. HIS TAKE ON THE MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE ARE SPOT ON AND HIS WRITING CREATES A DEEP EMOTIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE AND LOVE. THIS COLLECTION SHOULD NOT BE MISSED AND SHOULD BE SHARED WITH ONE YOU LOVE.

Great read.

People criticize Sandburg as being too literal and sappy. Read Honey and Salt. You may find as I did that it doesn't really matter.

Honey and Salt served on a silver platter!

Carl Sandburg's Honey and Salt is a perfect work of poetic mastery. From cover to cover the reader is engrossed in deep thoughts and clever metaphors. This book is reccomended to anyone looking for a good read!