{"product_id":"fog","title":"Fog","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarl Sandburg (1878–1967), born in Galesburg, Illinois, and died in Flat Rock, North Carolina, was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and one of the defining voices of twentieth‑century American verse. \"Fog\" comes from his breakthrough collection Chicago Poems (1916), now in the public domain. In just six lines it became one of the most anthologized poems in American literature — a perfect miniature of Imagism, the movement, indebted to Japanese haiku, that prizes a single clear image held in stillness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Stern set these lines as an eighteen‑year‑old freshman at the Eastman School of Music, signing the manuscript \"Rochester, 1952.\" His composition teachers there included Bernard Rogers, Louis Mennini, Wayne Barlow, and the school's director, Howard Hanson. \u003cem\u003eFog \u003c\/em\u003eis believed to be only the third composition Stern ever wrote — following \u003cem\u003eA Short Fantasy for Piano \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eA Prayer\u003c\/em\u003e, both written in 1950 — and is likely to be the earliest of his works to appear in published form. It is a miniature to match its subject: just sixteen bars for contralto and piano, folling a single page in Stern's original manuscript.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew August 2026 edition of 1952 original manuscript courtesy of Michael Golzmane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Stern","offers":[{"title":"Physical","offer_id":52159718228188,"sku":"ACA-STER-019","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (PDF)","offer_id":52159718260956,"sku":"ACA-STER-019e","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8198\/2428\/files\/America250CoverTemplate-9x12_8691aaa0-1f1d-423d-87f5-f2f166fbe30e.jpg?v=1785787317","url":"https:\/\/composers.com\/products\/fog","provider":"American Composers Alliance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}