Carl sandburg smoke and steel first edition

Eliot, T. Frost, R. Hopkins, G. Keats, J. Lawrence, D. Masters, E. Smoke, smoke, lost in the sieves of yesterday; Dumped again to the scoops and hooks today. Smoke like the clocks and whistles, always. Smoke nights now. To-morrow something else. Luck moons come and go: Five men swim in a pot of red steel.

Their bones are kneaded into the bread of steel: Their bones are knocked into coils and anvils And the sucking plungers of sea-fighting turbines. Look for them in the woven frame of a wireless station. So ghosts hide in steel like heavy-armed men in mirrors.

Peepers, skulkers—they shadow-dance in laughing tombs. They are always there and they never answer. Look for them back of a steel vault door. They laugh at the cost. They lift the birdmen into the blue. It is steel a motor sings and zooms. In the subway plugs and drums, In the slow hydraulic drills, in gumbo or gravel, Under dynamo shafts in the webs of armature spiders, They shadow-dance and laugh at the cost. The ovens light a red dome.

Spools of fire wind and wind. Quadrangles of crimson sputter. Selected Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Kenneth Giniger, to whom this copy was inscribed, is a New York book publisher and a prolific author. SonRod8a rated it really liked it Oct 24, Robert F. Flanagan rated it it was amazing Nov 26, Gayle Silberhorn rated it really liked it Oct 04, Petr rated it it was amazing Feb 17, Filip Deptula rated it liked it Jan 01, Hank rated it it was ok Nov 06, Fenia rated it it was amazing Oct 13, Ashlyn rated it it was amazing May 10, Andrea Janov rated it liked it Nov 18, Claire rated it liked it Mar 04, Ryan rated it really liked it Nov 22, Lora added it May 16, Steven marked it as to-read Sep 24, Andrew Desiderio added it Oct 08, Meredith Payne marked it as to-read Oct 29, Kristin marked it as to-read Oct 30, Igraine added it Feb 23, Marwa Arafa marked it as to-read Apr 08, Amanda Da rocha coelho is currently reading it May 04, Murray added it Nov 05, Rose Lang added it Nov 17, CosmicBandito marked it as to-read Dec 02, Lynne Shulman marked it as to-read Dec 11, Susan marked it as to-read Mar 14, Jason Gibbons is currently reading it Mar 18, Izz marked it as to-read Jul 29, Elias Carlston marked it as to-read Jan 07,