I love the Dover Trift Editions. They're a bit flimsy, but for the price, they can't be beat. Carl Sandburg's poems paint a colorful, often exiting, and always memoramble picture of city life at the turn of the century. These poems are simple, honest, and without a drop of pretention. This is a good read for anyone, not just poetry fanatics; but don't take my word for it, check it out at your local library.

Sandburg is direct and strong and clear. This collection of poems first published in 1916 has as its signature poem "Chicago''. Chicago, the toolmaker, meat butcher, stacker of wheat the great brawler of the cities is at once Sandburg's home and posture to the world. Sandburg can also write tenderly as of the famous "Fog" that comes in on 'little cats feet' and with moving power of love ( Tell me in the grave, if the lovers are the losers) and war( Shovel them high at Ypres... I am the dust I cover them all) .
He is a poet of the American experience, the American street and its people . And he is like the beloved Lincoln he would write a long biography of, a man of the people whose poetry is truly for the people.
The People Yes.