Jerry Ratch

Homeowner Haikus

A Humorous Gift Book

Samples:

"Diamond in the Rough" -
$100,000 bucks later,
rougher than we thought

and:

Dream house - we see our
children climbing the pear tree
that's not yet planted

Selected Works

Novel

Wild Dreams of Reality
A story of Love, Obsession, and Liberation.

Memoir

A Body Divided: a memoir about growing up with Polio.
The story of a one-armed boy becoming a man in a two-fisted world

Poetry

Chairman
Sequence of poems about Chairman Mao, written from Chinese posters.

Puppet X
Long 65 page sequence by a Puppet without a name, thus the "X" of its generation

Osiris
Sequence of poems, based on Egyptian theme

Hot Weather: Poems Selected and New
Poems from Selected Books, up to 1982

Chaucer Marginalia
Experimental language poems

Light
Poems mostly based on paintings

Poetry, gift book

Homeowner Haikus
Humorous haikus about homeownership

prose poems

Lenin's Paintings
A sequence of poems by a narrator who's been told to appraise paintings by V. Lenin, though he didn't know Lenin painted.

Quick Links

The poet reading poems in New York City, Sept 2009

now on youtube

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