Jerry Ratch


Wild Dreams of Reality, a novel

Wild Dreams of Reality

A story of love, obsession, and liberation that is rich with atmosphere and insight into the human spirit.

"I became a fool for Adrienne Parker the first moment I set eyes on her." With these words, it begins.


"I just couldn't put it down." - Robert Hughes


"I'm glad real writers still want to write books this way." - Richard Ford


The screenplay for this work is available from the author.


Selected Works

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Unpublished Memoir

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