![]() ![]() The purpose of the poems is to demystify American life in the countryside and in small towns. ![]() Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short poems in free verse that collectively tell the epitaphs of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a fictional town that takes its name from the river of the same name, which passed near the hometown of Masters, Lewistown, Illinois. Ah … good times, when you still knew the emotions of other teenagers (and flirted with them) through poetic verses found in a book and not with hashtags or “pics”! Spoon River Anthology: work overview ![]() We bought the volume in a bookshop, as it was done two or three decades ago (you can comfortably buy it on Amazon) and we were inspired to compose epitaphs in abundance. If we think of a work for today October 31st, Halloween, the day in which the dead are traditionally “brought out”, which one could be more suitable than Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology?Īmong other things, this collection of poems brings to the Zoa Studio team’s mind an episode from high school, in which Spoon River Anthology was used as the basis for a creative writing exercise. ![]()
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