Written by a Realtor who is also a poet and novelist, Homeowner Haiku elegantly encapsulates the often enervating process of the real estate transaction. These brief flashes, a perfect calming gift for anyone buying or selling a home, satisfy and challenge the reader with vivid images and pithy insights, as in this sample: "Dream house / we see our / children climbing the pear tree / that's not yet planted." Sherry Karver's artwork expands the experience of poems like "Zen and the Art of Homeownership" and "Those Little Voices" that run the gamut from comic to elegiac.
Jerry Ratch has published 12 books of poetry, and the novel: WILD DREAMS OF REALITY. His work can be purchased through the author's website at www.jerryratch.com. Email: jerryratch@yahoo.com
Poems published in: Antioch Review, AppleValleyReview, Avec, Beatitude, Carolina Quarterly, COE Review, Contact II, Ironwood, Louisville Review, Maryland Literary Review, Milvia Street Journal, Negative Capability, www.Public-Republic.net , Seems, Slant, Tonopah Review, among others.
About the novel WILD DREAMS OF REALITY, Richard Ford wrote: "The almost, but not quite innocent directness of Ratch's savvy little novel is irresistible to me. I read it in a sitting. I'm glad real writers still want to write books this way."
Now available: A memoir entitled A BODY DIVIDED, from Atelier Books.
The story of a one-armed boy becoming a man in a two-fisted world.
"A gritty and valiant story ... I would be glad to recommend it."
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
New novel available in manuscript (60,000 words):
THE SAN FRANCISCO POETRY WARS. About it Thomas Calder wrote: "Great stuff. I feel like if Kerouac and Vonnegut had had a baby you might be it, with Heller as your god-father maybe. Really funny."
Another new manuscript now in development:
"ADULTERATED MEMOIRS," an epistolary novel, by Alana Illinois and Jerry Ratch.
Erotic, Philosophical, Mythic.
(approx. 40,000 words)
4 of my books are now available as very affordable Kindle Books.
