Watch Return to Spoon River

In April 1915, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters published the Spoon River Anthology, a collection of poetry written in the form of an epitaph, telling the lives of the inhabitants of an imaginary little town in the American Midwest, Spoon River, near the river of the same name. In 1943 the anthology was translated into Italian by the writer Fernanda Pivano. Hundreds of years after the publication of the Anthology, some Lewistown and Petersburg communities in Illinois, near the Spoon River, pay homage to the poet by re-reading some epitaphs and reviving today’s atmospheres, moods and feelings of the inhabitants of American province, in the space and time of their daily microcosms.