"While Sandburg's work has been among the most celebrated in American poetry, a good many of his poems have remained unpublished. He may have regarded them as too radical for the time; others may have been set aside and never retrieved. In Poems for the People, George and Willene Hendrick have selected seventy-three representative poems from his early years in Chicago, almost all of them never before in print."--BOOK JACKET.

"Many of these poems are from one of Sandburg's strongest poetic periods, 1912-1922, his first decade as a journalist in Chicago. They show him in a variety of attitudes: a critic of fast-changing economic and social conditions in urban America; a walker in the city, observing bums, swells, and bohemians; and a sensitive poet born to immigrant parents."--BOOK JACKET.