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Fog (poem)

Poem

Poem

on little cat feet.

It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. "Fog" is a poem written by Carl Sandburg. It first appeared in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916.

Sandburg has described the genesis of the poem. At a time when he was carrying a book of Japanese Haiku, he went to interview a juvenile court judge, and he had cut through Grant Park and saw the fog over Chicago harbor. He had certainly seen many fogs before, but this time he had to wait forty minutes for the judge, and he only had a piece of newsprint handy, so he decided to create an "American Haiku".

Anthologies

This poem has been frequently anthologized. Perhaps the earliest was .

Reception

Harriet Monroe, the editor of Poetry who first published several of the poems that went into Chicago Poems, said as part of her review of that collection:

Staging

In 1959 and 1960, Bette Davis and her husband Gary Merrill toured the nation, putting on The World of Carl Sandburg, a dramatic staged reading of selected Sandburg poetry and prose, culminating in a one-month run on Broadway (with Leif Erickson instead of Merrill). One review described highlights of Davis's performance, including:

Recordings

  • TC 1253 :A vinyl LP of Carl Sandburg reading some of his poems, Carl Sandburg reading Fog and other poems was released on Caedmon (TC 1253) in 1968. : Description: 2s. : 33 rpm, stereo; 12in. :Reviewed: : An online link to Sandburg reading "Fog" is maintained by the state of Illinois.

Influence

The poet Richard Brautigan wrote a parody of the poem around 1956.

The poem was once loosely paraphrased on a 2008 episode of The McLaughlin Group during which host John Mclaughlin and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan discussed the candidacy of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain. This exchange was later revisited when Andrew WK included a version of the conversation in a rock anthem song he composed which was featured on Public Radio International.

The 2016 Video Game OneShot contains a reference to the poem on its official soundtrack, with the song played in the Refuge portion of the game being titled On Little Cat Feet.

References

References

  1. Corwin, Norman. "The World of Carl Sandburg". [[Harcourt (publisher).
  2. Van Wienen, Mark. (March 1991). "Taming the Socialist: Carl Sandburg's ''Chicago Poems'' and its Critics". Duke University Press.
  3. But not "Fog".
  4. Monroe, Harriet. (May 1916). "Chicago Granite:''Chicago Poems'' by Carl Sandburg". Poetry.
  5. (1968). "Carl Sandburg Reading Fog and other Poems". Discogs.
  6. Brautigan, Richard. (Winter 1956). "A Correction". The Caxton Poetry Review.
  7. (2008-03-06). "Andrew W.K. and John McLaughlin Are the Burt Bacharach and Hal David of 'McLaughlin Group'–Inspired Party Anthems". Vulture.
  8. Barthel, Mike. (2008-12-08). "No. 0: Andrew WK, "McLaughlin Groove"". Idolator.
  9. "Spotify".
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