Imagine you are dead and have the chance to explain yourself to the living. You can have up to roughly two dozen lines of free verse to say it. This will be your epitaph, the final word on your life. What would you say? Spoon River Anthology is a collection of a couple hundred such epitaphs. Crafted by Edgar Lee Masters in the early 20th Century, it captures the life of a small town in the Midwest by allowing the dead to speak one last time. It’s a fictional town; well mostly—the book was … [Read more...] about Reading Gravestones in Spoon River
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
