Ever the Winds of Chance - 9780252068485

Ever the Winds of ChancePOEMS\nAuthor(s): Carl Sandburg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252068485, 978-0252068485\nSynopsis\nNow published for the first time, Ever the Winds of Chance is Sandburg's evocative sequel to Always the Young Strangers [tel], \""the best autobiography ever written by an American\"" (Robert E. Sherwood, New York Times). Though left unfinished at his death, the sequel provides a wry, nostalgic chronicle of Sandburg's college years and early adulthood, a restless decade for a young man still in quest of his calling.\n Ever the Winds of Chance opens in 1898 when the twenty-year-old Sandburg, recently returned from the Spanish-American war, enrolls at Lombard College in his native Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg writes about his job at the fire station; his teachers, inspired or otherwise; his classmates and their camaraderie; his observations on great literary works and w.