A review by digs
Spoon River Antologia by Edgar Lee Masters

4.0

Sanford Meisner used this book in his acting classes to encourage students to slowly develop a voice. As someone who does not read a ton of poetry, I might not be the right person to comment on this but I really liked the rather unique idea of individual voices trying to sum up their lives from the grave. It is an interesting exercise in minimalism and it often comes through.
The shared characteristics of these voices are also worth exploring. Many of them only speak about their relationships, and some of them speak in abstracts and ideals, their memories come in broken up segments. The spirits are somehow just as you imagined they would be.