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poon River Anthology is a collection of free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters first published in 1915. Here is some information from the Collier Books edition:
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ncluded on this site are recordings of Spoon River poems, made as part of a project for Connected Academy, a metro Atlanta charter school. Also included are original
poems inspired by Masters and written by students which tell the imaginary and real lives of living and dead members of the Connected Academy extended community. This site is a unique blend of words and voices - of the living, the dead, the fictional, the historical, and above all, the personal.
poon River Anthology is a collection of free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters first published in 1915. Here is some information from the Collier Books edition:
"Masters' own immediate impulse to write his own Anthology followed a visit by his mother. Their talk of the old days resolved him to give voices to the small-town dead and living as 'characters interlocked by fate.' He set down the 214 poems over a period of some ten months, frequently writing (he said later) under a spell of such intensity that he lost all sense of time and was pulled back to the real world only by the coming of twilight at the end of each day."
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ncluded on this site are recordings of Spoon River poems, made as part of a project for Connected Academy, a metro Atlanta charter school. Also included are original
poems inspired by Masters and written by students which tell the imaginary and real lives of living and dead members of the Connected Academy extended community. This site is a unique blend of words and voices - of the living, the dead, the fictional, the historical, and above all, the personal.
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