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Chicago Poems

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by Carl Sandburg
2 hours, 15 minutes
Unabridged Free Verse Poetry Collection
1916

This complete collection includes the Telltale Weekly recordings of all 7 volumes of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems, originally sold individually as

Chicago Poems – 55 poems – 65 minutes
Handfuls – 11 poems – 4 minutes
War Poems 1914-1915 – 11 poems – 11 minutes
The Road and the End – 11 poems, 10 minutes
Fogs and Fires – 28 poems – 17 minutes
Shadows – 9 poems – 6 minutes
Other Days (1900-1910) – 23 poems – 22 minutes

Read by Alex Wilson.

Originally for sale on February 22, 2005, and released free with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License five years later. See the Mission page for why.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an Illinois poet and folklorist. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (Corn Huskers in 1919 and Complete Poems in 1951) and one for history (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years). Chicago Poems was his first published volume of poetry, aside from a self-published pamplet in 1904. [New Windows, all]

Alex Wilson is a writer and actor from northern Ohio and now based in Carrboro, North Carolina. His stories and comics have appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Outlaw Territory II (Image Comics), Weird Tales, Futurismic, LCRW and elsewhere. Locus has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Website)

Alex has performed lead roles in the North American premiere of (Richard Taylor's musical) Whistle Down the Wind and (Emmy-nominated director Jack Lucido's film) The Third Cord. He has recently appeared in the Deep Dish Theater productions of Hedda Gabler and Moon for the Misbegotten, and recorded narrations for Escape Pod and Night Shade Books. (Acting Resume/Reel) On early Telltale recordings, Alex is sometimes credited as "Alexander Wilson." He founded Telltale in 2004.