The Poet and Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen and Carl Sandburg

by Carl Sandburg, Lilian Steichen, Margaret Sandburg (Editor)

"These letters reveal the thoughts of two fine, strong minds drawn to each other first by their interest in socialism, then by their love of poetry and a similarity of ethics and ideals. My mother recognized this in his early prose and poetry. They learned so much about each other from these letters, yet it seems extraordinary that there was so little personal contact."-- From the introduction by Margaret Sandburg
 

292 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1987

About the author

Free verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln (1926-1939), his collections of poetry include Smoke and Steel (1920).

This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

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Reviews

[lucy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This entire book is just heartbreak after heartbreak. Not because it’s sad or whatever, just because I hate seeing other people living my dreams.

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

God. This book.

Beautiful love letters that also capture the political zeal of early 1900s Milwaukee Socialism.