Elegy Epitaphs of Appleton

by John Sauter

Modeled on the famous "Spoon River Anthology" this collection of elegiac epitaphs taken from tombstones in a cemetery near Gettysburg, PA is a imagined town history of "war heros, honest lawyers, faithful fathers, virtuous widows, chaste daughters and prodigal sons". Poems which read like a Dickens novel or oral history being passed around a pot-bellied stove in a rural Pennsylvania country store. A humorous truthtelling of falsehoods chiseled on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515191583
• ISBN13: 9781515191582
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"