http://rattle.com/blog/2010/01/on-the-flyleaf-of-c-k-w-s-selected-poems-by-herbert-woodward-martin/ Poetry for everyone. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rattle.com/blog/2010/01/on-the-flyleaf-of-c-k-w-s-selected-poems-by-herbert-woodward-martin/#comment-2276 David Lee Garrison Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:03:14 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2713#comment-2276 I love this poem. Herbert Woodward Martin gets right down to the nitty gritty details of what it means to die. His lines somehow grant a comic dignity to those details. In this poem we contemplate the idea of going out laughing about the absurdity of the clothes in which we're bured. I love this poem. Herbert Woodward Martin gets right down to the nitty gritty details of what it means to die. His lines somehow grant a comic dignity to those details. In this poem we contemplate the idea of going out laughing about the absurdity of the clothes in which we’re bured.

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