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LEW SARETT
The Woodsman-Poet
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LEW SARETT
America's Foremost Woodsman-Poet
LEW SARETT, poet, woodsman and forest ranger, university professor and lecturer, is one of the unique literary figures of America.  His life is kaleidoscopic.  He came out of the forests of the Lake Superior country as a boy.  In Chicago he was a newsboy, a bundle-carrier in a department store, and a worker in a sweatshop.  He knew poverty, loneliness, and hunger.  Later he found his way back to the North; in turn he became a life-saver, a teacher of woodcraft in sportsmen's camps, a naturalist, a guide in the Canadian North, and a U. S. Ranger in the Rocky Mountains.  After he received his education—on funds that he earned in part by his work in the woods—at the University of Michigan, Beloit College, the University of Illinois, and Harvard University,—he became first an instructor at the University of Illinois, and later a professor at Northwestern University.

It would require volumes instead of the few inches of space available to tell the story of his rise from obscurity to his nation-wide distinction as one of the most notable poets of this generation.  Numerous magazines have published biographical articles in the effort to encompass the life and the work of this man who is at once a ranger, a daring woodsman, a professor, and an eminent poet; who is respected in the field of letters, a member of the Society of Midland Authors, and the Authors' Club of London, Eng., and contributing editor to various literary journals; and who is equally respected by the voyageurs and lumberjacks with whom his work as a woodsman has thrown him, and by the Indians who have adopted him and have given him the name Lone-Caribou.

Out of this colorful life grew Lew Sarett's poetry.  He has contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, the Bookman, the Forum, Poetry Magazine, the North American Review, Saturday Review of Literature, and a dozen other journals.  His poetry is included in many of the school readers and college textbooks of our country and in the important anthologies of American literature.  He has won numerous prizes with his poems.  He is the author of four volumes of poetry on the American wilderness: Many Many Moons, The Box of God, and Slow Smoke—a best seller in 1925–26 and winner of the prize offered by Poetry Society of America for the best volume of poetry published in 1925—and Wings Against the Moon.  These volumes are marked by such power and beauty that by the general agreement of literary critics they have established his supremacy in this field, the field of nature.  In addition, he is regarded generally as one of the most effective speakers in America.



LEW SARETT, THE LECTURER

Detroit Evening News, Clyde Beck, Literary Editor
… Lew Sarett is one of the most successful lecturers on the American platform today.  This modern but robust Thoreau has a philosophy which will stand examination.


Los Angeles Sunday Times
… For an hour and half the audience were swept out of their complacent lives by his magnetic power.


The Daily Illini, University of Illinois
… Lew Sarett held his audience spellbound with his dramatic intensity, his deep resonant voice and a magnetism peculiarly his own.


The Rockford, Ill., Star
… Of the ten celebrities presented on the lecture series this season, Lew Sarett, college professor, woodsman, poet, was the most popular with local audiences.



LEW SARETT, THE POET

Harriet Monroe—Poetry Magazine
… Lew Sarett has the character equipment to write poems expressive of the particular kind of heroic spirit which is building the future of America while nations are painfully digging their way out of the past.… He is the most intimate friend of the wolves, deer, coyotes, and other beasts of our wilds, among all the poets, living or dead, who have written about them.


Literary Digest International Book Review
… With his third volume, Mr. Sarett reaches the front rank of American poets.  He is assured of a safe place in American Literature.



LECTURE SUBJECTS
SLOW SMOKE
WINGS AGAINST THE MOON
Lew Sarett's Lectures are More Than Lectures; They Are Beautiful Experiences.
On the theory that a lecture should be in a sense the flowering of a man's life, his experience, his philosophy, Lew Sarett formulated his lectures.  He brings to the platform not only his creative talent, skill in the use of vivid English, originality, freshness of material, and a stimulating outlook on life, but also skill as an orator, unusual dramatic power, a sense of humor, and personal charm.  As a consequence his lectures are so unique that, like the man himself, they defy classification.



BOOKS BY LEW SARETT


MANY MANY MOONS

$1.75




It is incalculably by far the best book of Indian poems ever published.—
Boston Transcript.




THE BOX OF GOD

$1.75




'The Box of God' means more as an American epic than 'Hiawatha.'  It is a revelation of the soul of a man of deep spiritual nature.  But it is more than that to me.  It is one of the great tragic poems of our generation.—
Harry Hansen, in Midwest Portraits.




SLOW SMOKE

$2.00




'The Committee declared that it voted 'Slow Smoke' the P. S. A. prize for the best volume poetry published in America in 1925 because of the high and even excellence of its lyric and narrative poetry, its intimacy with earth, its singing quality, its tenderness, its limpid beauty, and its outstanding significance.—
Poetry Society of American Bulletin.




WINGS AGAINST THE MOON

$2.00




This poetry is lyrical, musical, ecstatic.  It is to modern poetry what Brahm's symphonic tone poems are to modern music.—
New York World-Telegram.





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