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Looking for collectors, interested parties, philanthropists to invest in a 40+ year history of my writing career, for those interested in acquiring signed copies of my books plus samples of manuscripts, even notebooks. Most of my books are out of print and are difficult to obtain. Contact jerry@​jerryratch.com. for details.

All works copyrighted, owned and controlled by the author. Inquiries invited.

Now available from the author:
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. $18.00 signed and delivered.

New finished novel: The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, a novel somewhat similar to The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. (60,000 words)- available
"Hilarious! A romp!"
"A lot of straight-ahead power to the book."
- Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash

Novel: Luminous Nights (300 pages.)

New novel in progress: Bad Boys, Bad Boys.


Since the publisher for my first novel, WILD DREAMS OF REALITY, went out of business, I am seeking a new publisher to re-issue that book.

Agent and Publisher inquiries invited.

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.