This author of "Grass" called the title place "hog butcher for the world" and the "city of the big shoulders" in his poem "Chicago."
This author wrote a series of short stories set in the fictionalized Midwest for his daughters. In that collection, this author included character named after his daughters' nicknames, "Spink," "Skabootch," and "Swipes," as well as the Potato Face Blind Man. One poem by this author urges "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo / Shovel them under and let me work." Another of his poems challenges the reader to "Come and show me another city with lifted head singing / so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." This author of "Grass" called the title place "hog butcher for the world" and the "city of the big shoulders" in his poem "Chicago." For 10 points, name this American poet.
This author wrote a series of short stories set in the fictionalized Midwest for his daughters.
Carl Sandburg