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Spoon River Anthology, w/ Intro by May Swenson
Spoon River Anthology w/ Intro by May Swenson Author:Edgar Lee Masters [from intro] "The only near parallel of note in poetic drama ...is Dylan Thomas' play for voices, Under MilkWood, set in a sleeping Welsh town; in scope, at least, Masters was the more daring, not to say extravagant. His ghosts freely gossip about each other and themselves, the private lives of neighbors still living. ...fearless in their sex re... more »velations, and by this he branded himself as the Kinsey of his day. Few ingredients of human corruption and vulnerability are missing....uses the mouths of the dead to give outlet to all his grudges, beliefs, indignations, insights, prophecies, discoveries of injustice, revelations of life's mysteries and paradoxes, and his own eccentric philosophy. ....bequeathed to us a world in microcosm, new in form, timeless in essence."« less