Smoke and Steel

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Smoke and Steel is a 1920 poetry collection by American writer Carl Sandburg that explores industrialization, urban life, and the American working class in a free-verse, modernist style.

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Smoke and Steel canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Carl Sandburg
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresTheme American identity
American working class
industrialization
labor
modern city
social inequality
technology and society
urban life
follows Cornhuskers
genre poetry
hasInfluenceOn American social poetry
hasMediaType print
hasStyle colloquial language
experimental structure
imagistic
hasSubject factories
machines
railroads
smokestacks
urban landscapes
workers
isInCatalogOf Library of Congress
language English
literaryMovement modernism
literaryPeriod 20th-century American literature
notableFor depiction of industrial America
focus on working-class experience
use of free verse
partOf Carl Sandburg bibliography
placeOfPublication New York City
poeticForm free verse
precedes Slabs of the Sunburnt West
publicationYear 1920
publisher Harcourt Brace & World
surface form: Harcourt, Brace and Howe
timePeriodDescribed early 20th century

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Description of subject: Smoke and Steel is a 1920 poetry collection by American writer Carl Sandburg that explores industrialization, urban life, and the American working class in a free-verse, modernist style.

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Carl Sandburg notableWork Smoke and Steel
Carl notableWork Smoke and Steel
subject surface form: Carl Sandburg