Poetic License

<p style="text-align: left;">“Roeseler’s <em><strong>Last Decade</strong></em> is the Buster Keaton of the Post-Apollo potpourri. His poems are simultaneously doleful and droll, flavored with an eccentric wit. There is the traffic policeman who began writing tickets for cars that didn’t exist and the literal allegory of ‘sexuality in America,’ in which ‘the horizontal, being horizontal, dreams of making love in the vertical’ —each of the poem’s three lines slanting, conspicuously, at a 45 degree angle across the page.”</p> <p style="text-align: right;">—John Olson, “The Post Apollo Press,” <strong><em>Rain Taxi</em></strong>, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2000</p>

“Roeseler’s Last Decade is the Buster Keaton of the Post-Apollo potpourri. His poems are simultaneously doleful and droll, flavored with an eccentric wit. There is the traffic policeman who began writing tickets for cars that didn’t exist and the literal allegory of ‘sexuality in America,’ in which ‘the horizontal, being horizontal, dreams of making love in the vertical’ —each of the poem’s three lines slanting, conspicuously, at a 45 degree angle across the page.”

—John Olson, “The Post Apollo Press,” Rain Taxi, Volume 5, No. 1, Spring 2000