...Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. Originally published in 1915 this collection of poems explores the inhabitants of a small town through their own thoughts and reflections. Each poem is written almost like a self-eulogizing account of the speakers life. I'm about a quarter of the way through the collection and am finding most of the pieces to contain maxims upon which one might form a life philosophy.
The format, while not exactly alike, reminds of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio which I read about a year ago. While in Anderson's collection the tales were intertwining and not told by the character him or her self, the collection of short stories (almost) is similar to Masters' collection of poems here. I am curious to see what further gems I will find in this collection. Some are sounding familiar and I'm not quite sure when I've browsed through this book before, but I am sure it will come to me in time.
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