For 10 points—name this work about an American city, a poem by Carl Sandburg.
The title character of this work is observed "Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle" and who is as "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action". Earlier, that character was seen "flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job" and "with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning". The narrator of this work admits, "it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free and kill again", and tells the title character "I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys". This work opens by describing the title character as "Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat". For 10 points—name this work about an American city, a poem by Carl Sandburg.
The title character of this work is observed "Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle" and who is as "Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action".
Chicago