Tag Archives: Carl Sandburg

A Moses Poem for a Lost Child

By Robin Bates | Published: August 19, 2023

Mourning her dead child, this writer chose to read a poem echoing the infant Moses story.

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Blake on Trump’s Breast-Feeding Attack

By Robin Bates | Published: July 11, 2018

With yet another Trumpian attack on poor children, I turn once again to William Blake.

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America as a Mixed Nut Bowl

By Robin Bates | Published: July 4, 2018

In “Immigrant Picnic,” Djanikian captures the rich mixing that America’s welcoming of immigrants has given us.

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Memorial Day: I Am the Grass, I Cover All

By Robin Bates | Published: May 29, 2016

Carl Sandburg’s outward stoicism masks a deep grief as he memorializes those killed in battle in “Grass.”

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Headed for the City of Big Shoulders

By Robin Bates | Published: August 8, 2014

I use a vacation visit to Chicago as an excuse to revisit Sandburg’s famous poem.

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Fed’s Little Cat Feet, Rafa’s Bullish Force

By Robin Bates | Published: June 29, 2013

The Federer and Nadal era may be over. Here they are described in Flaubert, James Patterson, and Carl Sandburg terms.

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Beating Obama into a Steel Spike

By Robin Bates | Published: December 4, 2012

For strength Obama can think of himself as Carl Sandburg’s steel spike.

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Libya: Gargoyle Laughing, Fist Pounding

By Robin Bates | Published: March 22, 2011

First Muammar Gaddafi, Guernica-like, bombed his people.  Now the United States and several western countries are bombing Gaddafi. As this Carl Sandburg poem makes clear, the nightmare has no end: Gaddafi jeering and Allied responding go on and on (if not in Libya, then elsewhere) as America enters its third war in ten years. Gargoyle […]

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A Tribute to the Workers of the World

By Robin Bates | Published: September 6, 2010

Here’s a special Labor Day post for the workers of the world—those who have jobs and those who don’t, those who are overworked and those who are underemployed, those who are treated fairly and those who are exploited, those who are just starting out and those who have been working for a long time, those […]

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