The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog, by Norbert Blei

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• The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog. From the publisher: "These stories well up from the secret places of the writer's psyche ... and the reader's. We have met Blei's characters every day of our lives; they are the kids down the block, the woman next door. But in Blei's hands they touch magically and mysteriously the dark realms of legend: the World War II vet introducting his long-haired son, just returned from Vietnam, to buddies at the Legion; the mad Irishman defing his own mortality with his 'chair trick'; the mother, dying of cancer, stuffing herself with smoked fish, roast lamb, salami, cheese, and bakery, bakery, bakery. Blei's characters are mythic, and his stories are filled with humor, pathos, and the warm blood energies of Earth."
• Norbert Blei (1935 - 2013) is one of Door County's best-known authors of of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and journalism. Blei was born in Chicago and moved to Door County in 1969; he is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for fiction. (His writing retreat, The Coop, now sits on the Write On, Door County campus.) Blei's work gives readers insight into a different era of life on the peninsula and space to reflect on what has changed and what remains the same. His writing is alternately nostalgic, angry, and amusing, like Blei himself.
   
• Peoria, IL: Ellis Press, 1986
• Dust-jacket artwork by the late Door County artist, Charles Peterson.
• 196 pages