epitaphs

A series of poetic monologues by 244 former inhabitants (both real and imagined) of Spoon River, an area near Lewiston and Petersburg, Illinois. All in the cast are dead, and from their graves they speak their own epitaphs, discovering and confessing the real motivations of their lives.

Text and illustrations present a humorist look at tombstones.

A collection of put-downs, insults, squelches, compliments, rejoinders, epigrams, and epitaphs reputed to be the last words of famous people.

Accordion pages fold out to display the author's epitaph for her brother with letters, photographs, sketches, definitions, and poetry on her brother's life and her own experiences when, after she learned of his death, the author traveled to meet with his widow in Copenhagen.