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Book Description: <P> A CLASSIC IN AMERICAN POETRY... <P><BR> When <I>Spoon River Anthology</I> was published in 1915 it garnered immediate national attention for its truth and its shocking transgression of societal mores. A collection of poems from the graveyard of a rural Illinois town, <I>Spoon River Anthology</I> poignantly captures the politics, love, betrayals, alliances, hopes, and failures of this small American town. Here is the respected doctor, jailed for swindling; here is the chaste wife, rapt with desire; here is the pastor, angry and resentful; here is the quiet man, filled with unrequited love and devotion. Beneath the midwestern values of honesty, community, family, hard work, and chastity, <I>Spoon River Anthology</I> reveals the disillusionment and corruption in modern life. <P> With the publication of <I>Spoon River Anthology</I> Masters exploded the powerful myth that small town America was a social utopia. Here for the first time was a community that people recognized in its wholeness and complexity. Comprised of distinctly modern poems that collectively read as a novel, <I>Spoon River Anthology</I> is the story of a quiet midwestern town whose truths and contradictions are celebrated by its dead.

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