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I believe this #skyscraper quote comes from a poem of the same name from this book.

“By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and stars and has a soul.”

Another one of my birthday present books. #birthdaybooks #birthdaypresent

in middle school I had to memorize and recite Sandburg's "Fog," and I still know it by heart. sometimes when I'm anxious I'll even repeat it to myself to calm down. #isthatweird #seasonsreadings2016 #poetry

I am in book nerd heaven waiting for the Chicago Public Library Foundation's Carl Sandburg Literary Awards Dinner (that's a mouthful!) to begin. I think there's a baseball game going on but honestly, I'd rather be here. Tonight's honorees include Erik Larson and Scott Turow. #CSLA16 📚👏🏻🏆🎖🏅

HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again..

Windy City peeps: I'm going to a conference in Chicago at the end of September, and I won't have a lot of free time, but a visit to a great book store (or two) is a must. What's your favorite?

Legs hold a torso away from the earth. / And a regular high poem of legs is here. (From "The Walking Man of Rodin")