Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, / Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, / While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines? |
Edgar Lee Masters |
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters
In Masters’s collection of post-mortem autobiographical “epitaphs,” 244 former citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois tell us the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.
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NEW EDITION WITH NEW POEMS |
To My Wife |
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN, 1916 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999 |