The World of Carl Sandburg

"Playful and serious, childlike and wise, commonplace and fresh, homespun and poetic, distinctively American and daringly boundless. . . . Dry in its wit, like a prairie philosopher, and passionate in its convictions like one of the Lord's prophets" ~ N.Y. Times

"The snappers that mark the endings of so many Sandburg aphorisms are unfailingly comic, impudently infected. Some day they'll give a war and nobody'll come' pops out at you with innocence and ease, and becomes devastating thereby. The "goofyisms' that give the evening a gay and idiot shrug in its final few moments are read with the soft shoe elan of an unretired vaudevillian" ~ N.Y. Herald Tribune