Honey and Salt

A collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet with "e;a sharp lively wit and a tender approach to the human condition"e; (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Though he was also renowned as a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg was first and foremost a poet upon his death, President Lyndon B. Johnson said "e;Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."e; In this outstanding collection of seventy-seven poems, Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that engaged him as a poet for more than half a century of writing life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, these intensely honest poems testify to human courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature. "e;A poetic genius whose creative power has in no way lessened with the passing years."e; Chicago Tribune