Spoon River Anthology ( collection, gathering, ingathering, levy, recruitment, anthology, code, plucking )

A wonderful set of monologues written from the perspectives of the deceased citizens of Spoon River.
Here are Masters's dramatic monologues written in free verse about a fictional Midwestern town called Spoon River. The dead, "sleeping on the hill" in their village cemetery, awaken to tell the truth about their lives, toppling the myth of the moral superiority of small-town life.