Honey And Salt

In these seventy-seven poems, Carl Sandburg eloquently celebrates the themes that enraged him as a poet for more than half a century--life, love, and death. Strongly lyrical, embracing life with warmth and affection, these luminous, intensely honest poems testify to man's courage, frailty, and tenderness and to the enduring wonders of nature.

They ask questions whose answers lie locked in the human heart and reveal once again why, although he won international eminence as a biographer, hist...