Edgar Lee Masters published the Spoon River Anthology in 1915. It’s a collection of free-verse poems, but it’s meant to be read as a novel: each poem is in the voice of a different person who lived and died in Spoon River, Illinois, and now speaks from beyond the grave.
The anthology caused an instant sensation, [...]
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Spoon River Anthology
Posted in Classics, Poetry on July 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver (vol.2)
Posted in Contemporary, Poetry on April 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I have a habit of reading poetry before I go to bed at night. It generally takes me a long time to get through a book of poems, because I try to read them slowly and carefully, even reciting them aloud to myself (you can imagine that my husband loves this) and I only read [...]
