Friday, October 17, 2014

Holding Posture (Howard Altmann)

Holding Posture by Howard Altmann

Maybe it's because I was never the biggest fan of history class, but this poem by Howard Altmann is uninteresting.

It describes history. It's mildly clever, but I don't see the point in it. There is no magic or myth in the descriptors. History is, apparently, everything ("It keeps time and loses time, /knows its place and doesn’t know its place." etc., etc.) All encompassing and dull, no?

Favorite line: "afternoons it naps"

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