Anvil, Clock and Last - Hardcover

Roeske, Paulette; National Endowment For The Arts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807127183 ISBN 13: 9780807127186

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Beginning with its opening poem, "Geode," in which we see a young girl smashing open rocks with a hammer, Anvil, Clock, & Last announces a preoccupation with explosions. These works point to the early experiences that shape our lives and initiate the lifelong struggle between memory and forgetting. They are also poems of mortality that focus on death and the line of descent. Some poems consider unconscious childhood explorations and what we learn from them, and others grapple with a daughter's loss of a father to Alzheimer's disease. Roeske uses the anvil, the clock, and the last as metaphors for the tools with which she forges poems, and in doing so, hammers out and cracks open the details of her life.

About this title

About the Author

Paulette Roeske is professor emerita of English and creative writing at the College of Lake County in Evanston, Illinois. She lives in Evansville, Indiana and Evanston, Illinois. She earned her B.A. in English from University of Iowa, her M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807127183
• ISBN 13: 9780807127186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72