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Like the Wobblys favorite son, Joe Hill, Sandburg created a rabble-rousing persona in order to provoke a revolution in everyday life. Sandburgs prose brings the romantic figure of the modern poet as a polemicist, an orator for the people, together with the figure of the journalist as a gallant, acerbic muckraker. This figure becomes a vehicle from which to disseminate a radical vision of modern democracy. The articulation of this modern world-view was what composed the Charles H. Kerr Companys house style for itsReview, making it a forerunner of such crucial modernist literary organs asPoetrymagazine; indeed, it was in theReview, notPoetrymagazine, that the best of Sandburgs Chicago Poems first appeared. [From the introduction]… (more)