← Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthologyby Edgar Lee MastersPoetry collection of dramatic monologues depicting small-town life, death, and human secretsFind on Amazon↗About the authorEdgar Lee MastersAmerican poet whose Spoon River Anthology consists of epitaphs spoken by the dead citizens of a fictional small town. Its frank treatment of sexuality and corruption was groundbreaking.More by Edgar Lee MastersDomesday BookPoetry sequence using connected monologues to map a town's history and inhabitants→The New Spoon RiverLater collection of poems in dramatic monologue form set in an imagined American town→