False trees

Ratner, Rochelle

New Rivers [Press; distributed by Serendipity Books, Berkeley, Calif.]

Someday Songs: Poems Toward a Personal History

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Bkmk Pr/Umkc

<p>Essays on the leading feminist poetry of the day.</p>

Trying to Understand What It Means to Be a Feminist: Essays on Women Writers

Contact II Pubns

<p>Poetry. "In BEGGARS AT THE WALL, Rochelle Ratner guides us through an Israel that is not quite the Middle Eastern country we've learned about from CNN or travel books. This is her Israel: a fabled and disquieting place she wants to love like a homeland but cannot entirely embrace. In these plain-spoken poems, so naked in their concerns and passions, Ratner has given us the work of a secular Jew who yearns to be centered in Zion but who knows that Israel can never be her home. Her poems are washed in the light of Safed, Masada, and Jerusalem--a light that reveals hard truths about the lone Jewish nation on the planet...and about ourselves"--Charles Fishman.</p>

Beggars at the Wall

IKON

Poetry. The prose poems in BALANCING ACTS straddle the delicate borders between fiction and poetry, memoir and fantasy, reality and illusion. The arrangement of poems chronicles the growth of one woman or a mythic Everywoman, from early childhood through adulthood and all that entails: school, love, marriage, and finally the mother's death and impending death of the father. "In writing as in life, this poet seems to have no use for undue exuberance but is plainly too strong to let herself get bogged down in the maudlin...The result is honest and unaffected writing refreshingly free of the self-conscious angst that mars the writing of some of her colleagues"--Library Journal.

Balancing Acts

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. Rochelle Ratner, who died in early 2008, completed BEN CASEY DAYS, her twenty-third book, before her death. It is a landscape of moments in which headlines from news media are transformed into psychological snapshots with the power of lucid dreams. "It is a work of quiet genius, a cocoon that contains Ben and Ken [her husband], you and me, and the author herself, who emerges from it like a rare butterfly, one of a kind; read it and glimpse the colors of a remarkable soul"--Paul Pines. Other books by Rochelle Ratner available from SPD include BALANCING ACTS, COMBING THE WAVES, BEGGARS AT THE WALL, and HOUSE AND HOME.

Ben Casey Days

Contemporary

Mother and Child

Literary

Hamilton Stone Editions

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